In the Basement of the Ivory Tower
Subtitle: Confessions of an Accidental Academic
Publisher: Penguin; Viking
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780670022564
Description: As his house starts falling apart in every imaginable way, Professor X grabs first one, then two jobs teaching English 101 and 102-composition and literature-at a small private college and a local community college. This is the story of what he learns about his struggling pupils, about the college system-a business more bent on its own financial targets than the wellbeing of its students-about the classics he rediscovers, and about himself. --from publisher description.