Life-Arc Teaching Tales

Life-Arc Teaching Tales

by John Zeugner
Life-Arc Teaching Tales

Life-Arc Teaching Tales

by John Zeugner

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Overview

The stories, tales, and memories of Life-Arc Teaching Tales deal with the instructiveness of teaching, as well as the hammered, ironic learning of getting through any lifetime. ""First come the inverted parables: a live deer is embalmed in white paint by kids who can't believe he's real; a surfer becomes a ghost rider in the curl of a wave; a widow's son is underwhelmed by success when he wears the vest she gave him inside out. The darkly comical stories that follow culminate in Zeugner's account of his own memory-riddled heart attack. The collection is a virtuoso performance to be savored over multiple readings."" --Chandler Thompson, Translator of novels by Hector Aguilar Camin John Zeugner, Emeritus Professor of History at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), lectured in Japan for over five years--experiences used in his prize-winning collection of short stories, Under Hiroshima (2014) and his novel, Soldier for Christ (2013). He advised undergraduate social/technological projects at WPI's overseas centers in London, Bangkok, Hong Kong, San Juan, Copenhagen, and particularly Venice, which figures in his compilation of three short novels, Food for Jackals (2014).

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781498219006
Publisher: Resource Publications
Publication date: 04/14/2015
Pages: 204
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

John Zeugner, Emeritus Professor of History at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), lectured in Japan for over five years—experiences used in his prize-winning collection of short stories, Under Hiroshima (2014) and his novel, Soldier for Christ (2013). He advised undergraduate social/technological projects at WPI's overseas centers in London, Bangkok, Hong Kong, San Juan, Copenhagen, and particularly Venice, which figures in his compilation of three short novels, Food for Jackals (2014).

Table of Contents

Part I Headwaters

1 The Who and With Stories for Certain Children 3

Preface

The Deer Who Stood Very Still

The Girl with the Endless, Hair

The Boy with the Lonely Vest

The Pitcher Who Never Threw

The Surfer Who Rode a Long, Long Time

2 A Citation 25

3 The Revolutionaries 35

Part II Mid-Stream

4 The Rescue 57

5 Accidents of Lust 73

6 The Toughest Bar in Worcester 88

7 We Say 4 Is Bigger than, Larger than, More than 3 105

Part III At the Falls

8 The Point Of The Hook 117

9 Nothing in, Newark 130

10 Near Death in Venice 144

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"First come the inverted parables: a live deer is embalmed in white paint by kids who can't believe he's real; a surfer becomes a ghost rider in the curl of a wave; a widow's son is underwhelmed by success when he wears the vest she gave him inside out. The darkly comical stories that follow culminate in Zeugner's account of his own memory-riddled heart attack. The collection is a virtuoso performance to be savored over multiple readings."
—Chandler Thompson, Translator of novels by Hector Aguilar Camin

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