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Escalier interdit

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New York, rentrée 1964. Sylvia Barrett, jeune professeure de lettres tout juste
diplômée, est affectée au lycée Calvin Coolidge, dans un quartier défavorisé de
la ville. Idéaliste et volontaire, elle espère initier ses élèves aux joies de
la littérature. Au lieu de cela, elle est accueillie par des classes
surchargées, des pénuries de fournitures, des directives grotesques et des
lycéens qui ne manifestent pas le moindre intérêt pour Chaucer ou l’Odyssée. Son
parcours chaotique, mais finalement gratifiant, est raconté à travers une
ribambelle de lettres, notes de service, brouillons de devoirs, carnets
retrouvés… Une collection extraordinaire qui dépeint avec acuité et tendresse
les difficultés intemporelles du métier d’enseignant. Poignant, hilarant, en un
mot inoubliable, Escalier interdit est un texte étonnamment actuel, devenu
classique aux États-Unis dès sa parution en 1964.

544 pages, Pocket Book

Published January 19, 2022

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Bel Kaufman

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Bel Kaufman (b. 1911) was a bestselling writer, dedicated teacher, and lecturer best known for her novel Up the Down Staircase (1965), a classic portrayal of life in the New York public school system. Kaufman was born in Berlin, the daughter of Russian parents and granddaughter of celebrated Yiddish writer Sholom Aleichem. Her family moved to Odessa when she was three, and Russian is her native language. The family also lived in Moscow before immigrating to New York City when Kaufman was twelve. There, she graduated magna cum laude from Hunter College and with high honors from Columbia University. Kaufman then worked as a high school teacher in the city for three decades. The success of Up the Down Staircase launched her second career as a sought-after speaker for events around the country. Kaufman is also the author of Love, Etc. (1979), a powerful, haunting, and poignant novel rendering life as fiction.

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