To Sir with Love

Informationen zum Autor E. R. Braithwaite was born 1922 in British Guiana and educated in British Guiana and the United States. He served in the R. A. F. His publications include To Sir with Love: Experiences While Teaching in a London School (1959); Paid Servant: A Report about Welfare Work in London (1962); A Kind of Home-Coming: A Visit to Africa (1963); A Choice of Straws (1965). Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction, including the novels Crossing the River (shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1993) and A Distant Shore (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2004). Phillips has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN Open Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, as well as being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 1992 and one of the Granta Best of Young British Writers 1993. He has also written for television, radio, theatre and film. Klappentext An inspirational story of a dedicated teacher overcoming prejudice, rebelliousness and contempt in a tough post-war East End School. Zusammenfassung WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CARYL PHILLIPSIn 1945, Rick Braithwaite, a smart, highly educated ex-RAF pilot, looks for a job in British engineering. In desperation he turns to teaching, taking a job in a tough East End school, and left to govern a class of unruly teenagers.

Product details

• Authors: E R Braithwaite, E. Braithwaite, E. R. Braithwaite, Braithwaite E. R.
• Assisted by: Caryl Phillips (Introduction), Phillips Caryl (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.08.2005
• EAN: 9780099483694
• ISBN: 978-0-09-948369-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, FICTION / General, FICTION / City Life, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Relating to Black British Caribbean people, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Racism and racial discrimination, West Indies