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| Year of Publication |
2002
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
192 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Author | |
| Publisher |
Carnegie Mellon University Press
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| City |
Pittsburgh
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| Abstract |
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.
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| Author Biography |
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.
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| Time |
1990s
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