Name: Those Jackson County Blues: Autobiographical Novel (en Inglés)
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Author: Richard Mann
ISBN: 9783828036482

portada Those Jackson County Blues: Autobiographical Novel (en Inglés)

Those Jackson County Blues: Autobiographical Novel (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Lightning Source Inc

Autor

Richard Mann

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

222

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9783828036482

Those Jackson County Blues: Autobiographical Novel (en Inglés)

Richard Mann (Autor) · Lightning Source Inc · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Those Jackson County Blues: Autobiographical Novel (en Inglés)"

Upon his return to the U.S. after a seven year stint in Germany and Taiwan, a young, native Floridian, a victim of unexpected vississitudes, finds himself teaching in a prison deep in the north Florida Panhandle. The economic crisis of the mid-seventies has led to a massive increase in the number of prisoners facing incarceration. Instead of beginning work on his Ph.D, as planned, the young man is suddenly confronted with the reality of recalcitrant inmates, an arch-conservative administration, plus a whole kaleidoscope of personalities ranging from KKK guards, born-again Christians, black Muslims and a colorful mixture of staff members. Living together with his older brother, who was working at the local Social Security office, he slowly begins to adjust to a completely different world than the one he had experienced abroad, forcing him to accept the stark reality of those social changes which were transforming US society. While struggling to gain a semblance of order in the classroom, he found himself constantly battling his "old south" supervisors, who are suspicious of this liberal newcomer, who, later, seemingly far too often, sides with the inmates. In short, one finds here a microcosm of the US in the mid-seventies, with the young teacher himself raising the unresolved question - quo vadis?