The author of Angela's Ashes still shines in this book, very different and sometimes deeper, more human as the other but with more mature ideas and rich experience.
Frank is a man (born in America, grew up in Ireland to Irish parents, and returned to America as a teenager) extraordinarily sensitive, emotional, humble, and who loves literature, commitment, the deep contact with his students. This book is a long story and once again the path of a piece of his life, the life that brought him to America, including vocational schools, high schools and colleges.
For him, teaching is a mission and gratification. He teaches but learns, grows, but grows himself, make their way into the light of the eyes of his boys. Boys
multifaceted classes with faces and accents from all over the world, that sometimes ignorance, reading, I was stunned. And of course, a face-up on America, so distant and so different from what we see, how we think, how we live by ourselves. The environment the school is described in loving and critical. But the kids are getting them: naive, lazy, appalled, inattentive, forcibly realistic.
What's in a teacher? What's behind the lives of those who live for a job he loves, and he can do just that, despite allowing just survival? A real man, wonderful, romantic and very rich man who is displayed in all its beauty (and weakness). Without shame.
"horizons were better human beings. Mica annoyed other horizons"
"And 'the language to reveal the man. Speak. So I can see you"
Hey, Professor!
Frank McCourt
Adelphi, 2008
€ 11.00
