{"product_id":"death-of-a-teacher-arthur-mcshain-9781456633370","title":"Death of a Teacher","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis teacher walks into a school...\u003cbr\u003e Public school, unfiltered, and the gloves come off...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaw neophyte teacher Dale Barrow embarks on a Gatsby-ish romp into the purgatory of the burlesque - deep south's Decadia Heights High School in the 1980's, where he deciphers matted policies, navigates an emerging and mysterious \"intercommunication\" technology, and befriends eccentric colleagues and Gulmer, a handicapped cohort. Gradually, Barrow finds himself adrift in a fragile liaison with a beautiful senior student, Angelea, and caught in the orb of a sinister scheme to eliminate another teacher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe must defuse it all or lose his fortunes, but not before he finds himself being censured by authorities for his use of dancing and music in his classroom and being told \"Your kids aren't learning anything\". Barrow, on the cusp of an abrupt exit, is convinced by Angelea to stay at the Heights. He progresses forward, delicately tethered to a childhood friendship and sustained by visits with his demented mother, a doting Aunt, and immersion in the hijinks and pratfalls of colleagues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe can't take it anymore...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has been crippled by a gang attack on his class, and had a collapsing episode with Angelea. Now, on the last day, he and Gullmer break through a classroom door to foil a murder attempt on an unpopular teacher. The deep void in his life and the pressures of a trial prompt him to execute his final escape north to live with his sister in Boston.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoston is the perfect revolutionary oasis. Family, friends, and reconnects with his past help him find the solace and direction to reconstruct his heart, unite with his one true love, and return to teaching. It was \"all about her\"....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs if on a skiff on gentle waters, out of bay we go, where we were made for, Mozartian, a song, a wraith banished, a moment in eternity compressed...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeath of a Teacher narrative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arthur McShain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1456633376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781456633370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ebookit.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Arthur McShain","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48453654905087,"sku":"9781456633370","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bd9b0c90-c2de-4ee5-bc36-297aa3dce9db.jpg?v=1777301456","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/death-of-a-teacher-arthur-mcshain-9781456633370","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}