And Gladly Teach is an upbeat, humorous novel by Brian Libby about an Episcopal boarding and prep school with a bit more than its fair share of problems. The Headmaster is dyslexic and incompetent, the athletic program is out of control, money is running out, the chaplain practices dark magical arts, and the food is gut-shakingly bad. Rollicking funny and tragically astute, And Gladly Teach is highly recommended as a wry, ironic tale about a private institution of learning where anything that can be corrupted -- is.Product Description
Beset by athletic mania, bewildered by lunatic consultants, beleaguered by incipient incolvency, and bedeviled by a spell-casting chaplain, St. Lawrence Academy, an Episcopal boarding school, exemplifies some of the problems facing contemporary private education.This is a work of absurdist fiction--or is it?What ghastly truths can lurk behind the implication of bourgeois respectability contained in the words "prep school?"
Written by a very experienced and very burned-out history teacher, this sardonic novel looks satirically at college-preparatory education today.
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