《losing my faculties》是2004年Random House US出版社出版的圖書，作者是Brendan Halpin。
基本介紹
- 書名：losing my faculties
- 作者：Brendan Halpin
- 出版社：Random House US出版社
- 出版時間：2004年8月
- ISBN：9780812969511
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
I am just one of those rare and probably defective people whoreally enjoy the company of teenagers.
Brendan Halpin’s It Takes a Worried Man—a memoir of how he andhis family dealt with his wife’s battle against breast cancer—waspraised for its can-dor, raw humor, and riveting voice. Halpin nowturns his unique talent to an unforgettable account of the pursuitof his true calling: teaching.
Losing My Faculties follows Halpin through teaching jobs in aneconomically depressed white ethnic town, a middle-class suburb, alast-chance truancy prevention program in the inner city, and anambitious college-prep urban charter school. In the same cuttinglyobservant voice that marked It Takes a Worried Man, Halpin tells uswhat it really means to be a teacher—the ups and downs in theclassroom, the battles with administrators and colleagues, and thejoy of doing a job that matters. Not the tale of a hero who changeshis troubled students’ lives in one year, Losing My Faculties is,rather, the story of an all-too-fallible teacher who persists inspite of the frustrations that have driven so many others from theprofession. After nine years of teaching, Halpin ?nds his idealismin shreds but his sense of humor and love for his work blessedlyintact.
作者簡介
Brendan Halpin, a thirty-four-year-old high school English teacher, is the author of the acclaimed memoir It Takes a Worried Man. He lives in Boston with his wife, Kirsten, and their daughter, Rowen.
