Lesson Plans
Autor Suzanne Greenbergen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mai 2014
Library Journal Editor’s Pick
Reader’s Digest “Great Books from Small Presses That Are Worth Your Time”
“Witty and insightful.” —Reader’s Digest
“Readers who enjoyed Tom Perrotta’s Little Children will want to try Suzanne Greenberg’s Lesson Plans, an entertaining, funny, and thoughtful debut novel about three California homeschooling families.” —Library Journal Editor’s Pick citation
Lesson Plans chronicles the lives of three California families who choose to homeschool for different, deeply personal reasons.
Patterson is a straight-laced insurance adjuster who has recently discovered both surfing and God and convinces his wife to homeschool their rambunctious twins. David is a liberal stay-at-home dad who feels stuck in suburbia and throws his energy into homeschoolong his three “ducklings.” Wedding photographer Keith has just separated from Beth, a full-time mom struggling to manage her own private chaos. And there’s Jennifer, Keith and Beth’s precocious daughter, who copes with severe allergies and doesn’t understand why she’s not attending school and seeing friends like she used to. Will homeschooling provide balance and harmony for these families? Or will it bring unforeseen challenges and stress?
In this captivating and funny debut novel, Suzanne Greenberg takes a serious look at the choices parents profess to make on behalf of their children, as well as the unpredictable ways in which new relationships can change our lives.
Suzanne Greenberg is the author of Speed-Walk and Other Stories, which was selected for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize by Rick Moody and was a John Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist. She is also the co-author of two novels for children and a guide to creative writing. Lesson Plans is her first novel for adults.
A New Jersey native, Greenberg lives with her husband and three children in California and teaches creative writing at California State University, Long Beach.
Reader’s Digest “Great Books from Small Presses That Are Worth Your Time”
“Witty and insightful.” —Reader’s Digest
“Readers who enjoyed Tom Perrotta’s Little Children will want to try Suzanne Greenberg’s Lesson Plans, an entertaining, funny, and thoughtful debut novel about three California homeschooling families.” —Library Journal Editor’s Pick citation
Lesson Plans chronicles the lives of three California families who choose to homeschool for different, deeply personal reasons.
Patterson is a straight-laced insurance adjuster who has recently discovered both surfing and God and convinces his wife to homeschool their rambunctious twins. David is a liberal stay-at-home dad who feels stuck in suburbia and throws his energy into homeschoolong his three “ducklings.” Wedding photographer Keith has just separated from Beth, a full-time mom struggling to manage her own private chaos. And there’s Jennifer, Keith and Beth’s precocious daughter, who copes with severe allergies and doesn’t understand why she’s not attending school and seeing friends like she used to. Will homeschooling provide balance and harmony for these families? Or will it bring unforeseen challenges and stress?
In this captivating and funny debut novel, Suzanne Greenberg takes a serious look at the choices parents profess to make on behalf of their children, as well as the unpredictable ways in which new relationships can change our lives.
Suzanne Greenberg is the author of Speed-Walk and Other Stories, which was selected for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize by Rick Moody and was a John Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist. She is also the co-author of two novels for children and a guide to creative writing. Lesson Plans is her first novel for adults.
A New Jersey native, Greenberg lives with her husband and three children in California and teaches creative writing at California State University, Long Beach.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781938849244
ISBN-10: 1938849248
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 137 x 213 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Prospect Park Books
Colecția Prospect Park Books
ISBN-10: 1938849248
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 137 x 213 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Prospect Park Books
Colecția Prospect Park Books
Recenzii
Library Journal Editor’s Pick
Reader’s Digest “Great Books from Small Presses That Are Worth Your Time”
“Witty and insightful.” —Reader’s Digest
“Readers who enjoyed Tom Perrotta’s Little Children will want to try Suzanne Greenberg’s Lesson Plans, an entertaining, funny, and thoughtful debut novel about three California homeschooling families.” —Library Journal Editor’s Pick citation
“Lesson Plans is a complex, character-driven story written with clarity about the intersecting lives of ordinary parents, the choices they make and the long-term effects of these choices on their children. Author Suzanne Greenberg mines the territory of Tom Perrotta with a fresh take on today’s suburban subcultures and entwined family relationships. Crafted with skill and depth, the characters stay with you long after the book ends.” —LIAN DOLAN, author of Elizabeth the First Wife and Helen of Pasadena
“In her new novel Lesson Plans, Suzanne Greenberg brings her slyly humorous eye to a group of homeschoolers in Southern California. Following three families whose lives are unraveling, Greenberg lays bare the illusions and despair of these characters, their loneliness and longing for love. But she also shows us hope springing to life as reliably as vacant lot weeds. Greenberg is an unapologetically honest writer, with a sharp eye for how easily any life can veer off course.” —CAI EMMONS, author of His Mother’s Son and The Stylist
“Reading Suzanne Greenberg’s Lesson Plans, I was schooled in the nuances of the human heart and privy to the most illuminating of chalkboards. Greenberg possesses a satirist’s wit and a realist’s sharp eye for details. Lesson Plans has everything: depth, humor, insight, a compelling, page-turning story and deftly crafted, unforgettable characters. This is a brilliant debut novel, a completely engrossing look at contemporary suburban America.” —LISA GLATT, author of A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That and The Apple’s Bruise
“All good parents want to protect their children from the perils of the world around them. Not all parents put their children’s needs before their own. Or find the balance between the two. A story set within the arcane world of homeschooling, rooted in place and time and misplaced love, there are no heroes or villains in Suzanne Greenberg’s heartbreaking tale of families torn asunder by the conflict of good intentions and desire.” —PEGGY HESKETH, author of Telling the Bees
“Homeschooling will never be the same after Suzanne Greenberg’s hilarious, poignant, and cinematic debut novel, Lesson Plans, about three families whose lives change profoundly through the wild, exhausting, and redemptive journey that homeschooling actually requires. This bittersweet novel is a survival manual for intelligent parents willing to take a hard road, and for any reader, a sheer delight.” —HOWARD NORMAN, Two-time National Book Award Finalist for The Northern Lights and The Bird Artist
Reader’s Digest “Great Books from Small Presses That Are Worth Your Time”
“Witty and insightful.” —Reader’s Digest
“Readers who enjoyed Tom Perrotta’s Little Children will want to try Suzanne Greenberg’s Lesson Plans, an entertaining, funny, and thoughtful debut novel about three California homeschooling families.” —Library Journal Editor’s Pick citation
“Lesson Plans is a complex, character-driven story written with clarity about the intersecting lives of ordinary parents, the choices they make and the long-term effects of these choices on their children. Author Suzanne Greenberg mines the territory of Tom Perrotta with a fresh take on today’s suburban subcultures and entwined family relationships. Crafted with skill and depth, the characters stay with you long after the book ends.” —LIAN DOLAN, author of Elizabeth the First Wife and Helen of Pasadena
“In her new novel Lesson Plans, Suzanne Greenberg brings her slyly humorous eye to a group of homeschoolers in Southern California. Following three families whose lives are unraveling, Greenberg lays bare the illusions and despair of these characters, their loneliness and longing for love. But she also shows us hope springing to life as reliably as vacant lot weeds. Greenberg is an unapologetically honest writer, with a sharp eye for how easily any life can veer off course.” —CAI EMMONS, author of His Mother’s Son and The Stylist
“Reading Suzanne Greenberg’s Lesson Plans, I was schooled in the nuances of the human heart and privy to the most illuminating of chalkboards. Greenberg possesses a satirist’s wit and a realist’s sharp eye for details. Lesson Plans has everything: depth, humor, insight, a compelling, page-turning story and deftly crafted, unforgettable characters. This is a brilliant debut novel, a completely engrossing look at contemporary suburban America.” —LISA GLATT, author of A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That and The Apple’s Bruise
“All good parents want to protect their children from the perils of the world around them. Not all parents put their children’s needs before their own. Or find the balance between the two. A story set within the arcane world of homeschooling, rooted in place and time and misplaced love, there are no heroes or villains in Suzanne Greenberg’s heartbreaking tale of families torn asunder by the conflict of good intentions and desire.” —PEGGY HESKETH, author of Telling the Bees
“Homeschooling will never be the same after Suzanne Greenberg’s hilarious, poignant, and cinematic debut novel, Lesson Plans, about three families whose lives change profoundly through the wild, exhausting, and redemptive journey that homeschooling actually requires. This bittersweet novel is a survival manual for intelligent parents willing to take a hard road, and for any reader, a sheer delight.” —HOWARD NORMAN, Two-time National Book Award Finalist for The Northern Lights and The Bird Artist
Notă biografică
Suzanne Greenberg, whose fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in the Mississippi Review, West Branch, and Washington Post Magazine, is the author of Speed-Walk and Other Stories, which was selected for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize by Rick Moody and was a John Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist. She is also the co-author of two novels for children, Abigail Iris: The One and Only and Abigail Iris: The Pet Project, as well as the book Everyday Creative Writing: Panning for Gold in the Kitchen Sink. Lesson Plans is her first novel for adults. A New Jersey native, Greenberg lives with her husband and three children in California and teaches creative writing at California State University, Long Beach.
Descriere
This funny, gripping debut novel tells the story of three California families as they struggle with homeschooling.