Montana's Top Bananas: Tell Tales On the Way to San Francisco Bay - Softcover

Garcia, Ricardo L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 153712904X ISBN 13: 9781537129044

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

"Montana's Top Bananas" is an on-the-road book and can be read in snatches wherever you are and need distraction--at the airport, bleachers, hotel room, even the bathroom! Both hard copy or digital, it's portable and will distract you--in the best sense--from doldrums, because here are contemporary "folk" tales as told by nine professors and a graduate student.(Some are serious, most are silly or corny, though most will enable you to drop names, ah Bach!) They tell 39-tales in rhymed verse as they drive a van to a conference from the University of Montana-Missoula to San Francisco. (The plot is based on a real journey with real people.) In the spirit and style of Geoffrey Chaucer's “Canterbury Tales,” they embark on a pilgrimage to reap knowledge at the Holy Grail of computer technology in Silicon Valley with one simple rule: "you can speak at any time so long as you speak in rhyme." Even the dialogue is rhymed yet natural. The themes of the tales are as diverse as the group of reluctant pilgrims, professors Virgil Vulgate, Smokey Cloud, Inger Johnson, Lupe de Vega, Lolo Sandec, T. Osprey Munsch, Tommy Tornado, Lawrence Carrow, Buster White, and graduate student Jose Roberto, "Bob".

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About the Author

Ricardo L Garcia is a born-again Professor who started his career teaching high school students to love language and write poetry. Tempted by big bucks and fame, he sold his soul, pursued a doctorate and commenced teaching in colleges and universities where he taught serious topics--his students complained of the joyless news his courses reeked, of racism, sexism, homophobia, the worst of human nature. A glutton for punishment, he served as a college administrator, rising to the rank of Assistant Chancellor for Affirmative Action and Diversity, a position from which he was fired for refusing to defending the university against anybody who differed, minorities, women, gays & lesbians, disabled,even veterans. Falling into the depths--he had money and fame--without joy, he discovered what he always knew, teaching should bring/give joy with enlightenment, and he turned to storytelling. Now from Alaska to Puerto Rico, he tells stories in prisons, convents, Indian reservations, retirement homes, hospitals, military bases, museums, banks, national monuments, federal bureaus, rifle ranges, libraries, colleges, preschools, elementary, and secondary schools, i.e., anywhere anybody will listen. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and author of four other books of fiction, Coal Camp Days (2001), Brother Bill’s Bait Bites Back (2004), Coal Camp Justice (2005), Ants in my Pants: Woodstock Poems, (2011), and one non-fiction textbook, Teaching for Diversity (2011).

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 153712904X
• ISBN 13: 9781537129044
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 192