Anthony Augustus Angelo's earliest childhood memories revolve
around his Italian American family who did everything the Catholic
Church and his grandfather dictated, and continues through his
unlikely metamorphosis into a public school English teacher. He
speaks frankly about his own pitiful education, and the education
of his students in the forty years he wielded the chalk.
For Triple A, Ant'ny, or, as the kids called him, Tony, the
broken English that filled his adolescent years came as an
inspiration from his mother and condemnation from his totalitarian
and often drunk grandfather. Loosely based on the life of author
Tony Rotondo, Scratch Where It Itches: Confessions of a Public
School Teacher, shares his memories of life in the 1940s and 1950s
in a small industrial town in southeastern Pennsylvania. Mr. Angelo
reminisces about his education in Catholic and public schools where
his cheeks-facial and gluteal-bear the brunt of mean-spirited nuns
during the good ol'days filled with poverty, pasta, and
penance.
Today, Mr. Angelo, a husband and father of three, is as hapless
in the home as he is outstanding in the classroom. But his real
itch is the state of education, both public and parochial. He
thinks it stinks, and he wants you to know why.
General
Imprint: |
Iuniverse, Inc.
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2006 |
First published: |
November 2006 |
Authors: |
Tony Rotondo
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
216 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-595-40619-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-595-40619-X |
Barcode: |
9780595406197 |
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