Hall of Fools

McShane, Shamrock

ISBN 10: 1542928419 / ISBN 13: 9781542928410

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hall of Fools
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1542928419
• ISBN 13: 9781542928410
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Garvin, Mike
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Hall of Fools is a nonfiction novel about American public education. If you want to know what it’s like to teach in a public school for one whole year – or thirty – or any number in between, if you want to know if your children are safe in school, or if they’re learning anything and who is teaching it to them, if you’re brave enough, enter the Hall of Fools. Hall of Fools is the story of public education, seen through the prim of a thirty-year career teaching Language Arts in middle school. This searing first-hand account of writing in the trenches finds its literary kin in Hemingway, Proust, Marx, a noble heritage extending to the ancients, enlisted to battle in the war on ignorance. Race, politics, philosophy, aesthetics, religion, unions, sex, gender, violence, crime, love, hate, history, all must pass through the Hall of Fools. You should read this book before you send your kid to school, before you run for office, before you decide to be a teacher, before your next faculty meeting, before you write a book, before you read Proust.

About the Author

Born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1951, Shamrock McShane was sports editor for the Oak Leaves before moving to Key West in 1978. He has lived in Gainesville, Florida since 1983, teaching Language Arts in public schools, as well as writing, acting, and making movies. Shamrock McShane, writer, actor, teacher, taught Language Arts in Florida public schools for 30 years. He studied with Padgett Powell, Harry Crews, and Donald Justice and was a Henfield Award nominee at the University of Florida (MFA). His work has appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Long Shot, Steel Toe Review, and The English Journal. A Shakespearean-trained actor as well as a prize-winning playwright, his roles include Mercutio, Macbeth, Prospero, and most recently Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. He is the author of Rock Beauty and the non-fiction novel Hall of Fools. As a screenwriter collaborating with his son, the director Mike McShane, his films include The Votive Pit, You Are Not Frank Sinatra, and It's All Good. .shamrockmcshane.wordpress.com