num_pages: 208
description: In William Harte€™s Never Fade Away an English Department offers writing courses that jettison from school immigrant and minority students who cane€™t meet the departmente€™s narrow standards of competency. The students have entrance-level SAT scores, but theye€™re disappearing in droves through the trap-door of their introductory English classes.An untenured and unruly instructor refuses to cooperate when the Department fails one of his students, a Vietnamese math major with a genius for storytelling. The teacher manages to keep the woman in school, but is fired for his defiance. To fight back he files a grievance, which mushrooms into a public hearing. From day one interested students cram the auditorium.The story in Never Fade Away is told through alternating entries from two journals. One is kept by the teacher, a Vietnam vet and novelist; the other by the student he defends, a refugee from South Vietnam devoted to her studies, to Buddhism, and to her familye€”alive only as ghosts. Privy to the paire€™s intimate thoughts, we watch a deep symbiotic friendship develop. Their involvement reaches a crux at the hearing, when their relationship is painted as a romance, and teacher and student are forced to examine the basis of their friendship.
language: English
title: Never Fade Away
titlecomplete: Never Fade Away
ratings_count: 32
publisher: Daniel & Daniel Publishers