TY - SER
KW - social workers
KW - people with intellectual disabilities
KW - bus travel
KW - group homes
KW - professors
AU - David Walton
AB - Ray Maddas has a midlife crisis after his father dies, his wife divorces him, and the university at which he taught severs his contract. Ray’s response is almost Franciscan: he takes a volunteer position teaching mentally-challenged adults how to ride public buses each day from a group home in Jumonville to their workplace. “[I]n a materialist age,” Rays says, “who but the man who cares nothing for advancement can truly advance?” The cast of mentally challenged characters is moving.
C1 - 1990s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Oakland; North Side; Squirrel Hill; West End
C4 - Literary; Campus
CY - Pittsburgh
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Ray Maddas has a midlife crisis after his father dies, his wife divorces him, and the university at which he taught severs his contract. Ray’s response is almost Franciscan: he takes a volunteer position teaching mentally-challenged adults how to ride public buses each day from a group home in Jumonville to their workplace. “[I]n a materialist age,” Rays says, “who but the man who cares nothing for advancement can truly advance?” The cast of mentally challenged characters is moving.
PB - Carnegie Mellon University Press
PP - Pittsburgh
PY - 2002
RN - David Walton (1942— ), educated at Bowling Green State University and the University of California, Irvine, has taught English at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.
EP - 192 p.
TI - Ride
ER -