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Title: In the Deep Heart's Core by Michael Johnston, Robert Coles ISBN: 0-8021-4024-6 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Author is genuinely interested in students, education issues
Comment: I am a classmate and friend of the author at YLS and would like to refute the earlier character-attacking review from the YLS student. While I have not had the opportunity to read through the entire book myself, I have talked with the author about education issues and his book, and have found him to be highly informed. More importantly, I feel that he has a legitimate desire to improve the plight of those children from disadvantaged backgrounds through education reform.
Rating: 1
Summary: Experience but not Expertise
Comment: Johnston had a life-altering experience in the Mississippi Delta and was eager to share it. He witnessed some of the staggering problems in our educational system. But instead of being moved and challenged by his book, I grew increasingly irritated and unimpressed. How could a Yale graduate, English teacher and Grove Press author achieve publication of a work so riddled with grammatical and word usage errors? The mistakes cast doubt on Johnston's credibility as an educator and reporter. Just two examples: the repeated use of "disinterested" to mean "uninterested"; and the dozens of incorrect modifiers, such as, "Watching Corelle shuffle down the hall flanked by two security guards, a discomfort welled inside me." Like others, I too found his tone a bit self-congratulatory. Despite all, I'm glad I read the book. It covers a part of our culture one needs to know.
Rating: 2
Summary: A bit too patronizing
Comment: Tear-jerking and heartstring-tugging are well and good, but I found the writing to be melodramatic and even maudlin at many points. Besides, how can someone who jumps into two years of teaching in a place he probably would have known nothing about prior to landing there really, truly, genuinely come to understand the profound cultural riches (and poverties) of that place? It would take decades, perhaps, and the intimate understanding of a native son/daughter. I am skeptical. This felt--at least on some level--like the author is capitalizing on his experiences in the Delta. It's clear they had an impact on him, but I'm not sure they really allowed him to leave behind a subtle, smarter-than-thou attitude. Perhaps the best thing about this book is that it might awaken some readers to the horrific plight faced by American public schools.
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Title: Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan ISBN: 0670032069 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 10 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Paper Fish by Tina De Rosa ISBN: 1558614397 Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY Pub. Date: 15 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly ISBN: 0671619314 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 03 October, 1985 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride ISBN: 1573229717 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper: A Novel by Harriet Scott Chessman ISBN: 0452283507 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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