Coming Ashore
Picking up her story in the late '60s at age 21, Cathy Gildiner whisks the reader through five years and three countries, beginning when she is a poetry student at Oxford. Her education extended beyond the classroom to London's swinging Carnaby Street, the mountains of Wales, and a posh country estate.After Oxford, Cathy returns to Cleveland, Ohio, which was still reeling from the Hough Ghetto Riots. Not one to shy away from a challenge, she teaches at a high school where police escort teachers through the parking lot, trying to engage apathetic students and tussling with the education authorities. In 1970, Cathy moves to Canada. While study…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-77090-633-4
- EAN: 9781770906334
- Produktnummer: 17207206
- Verlag: Ecw Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
Über den Autor
Catherine Gildiner's childhood memoir Too Close to the Falls (1999) was a New York Times bestseller and on the Globe and Mail's bestseller list for over a year. In 2010, she published a sequel, After the Falls, also a bestseller. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.
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