Part epistolary memoir, part handbook, Teaching Life reflects on more than three decades of teaching literature and touching the lives of students. Both a reflection on a life in literature and a primer on teaching as a vocation, this soul-stirring work also provides behind-the-scenes stories of many of the authors who have influenced Dale Salwak's career.
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Part epistolary memoir, part handbook, Teaching Life reflects on more than three decades of teaching literature and touching the lives of students. Both a reflection on a life in literature and a primer on teaching as a vocation, this soul-stirring work also provides behind-the-scenes stories of many of the authors who have influenced Dale Salwak's career.
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Very good in fair dust jacket. Signed by author. DJ has small tears at bottom of the spine., and top of the back. Embossed stamp of previous owner. xi, [1], 188 p. Index. Part epistolary memoir, part handbook, "Teaching Life" reflects on more than three decades of teaching literature and touching the lives of students. Both a reflection on a life in literature and a primer on teaching as a vocation, this soul-stirring work also provides behind-the-scenes stories of many of the authors who have influenced Dale Salwak's career. From an on-line posting: "Dale Salwak is a professor of English at southern California's Citrus College and a recipient of Purdue University's Distinguished Alumni Award as well as a National Defense Education Act fellowship from the University of Southern California where he earned his Ph.D. He is the author of numerous books, including Kingsley Amis: Modern Novelist and Carl Sandburg: A Reference Guide, and the editor of The Wonders of Solitude, Anne Tyler as Novelist (Iowa, 1994), Philip Larkin: The Man and His Work (Iowa, 1989), and The Life and Work of Barbara Pym (Iowa, 1987)."
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Very Good jacket. Signed. Signed and inscribed by the author on the 1st blank page. NO markings in text. Binding is still tight. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Signed and personalized by the author. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.