Title: Why Shoot the Teacher
Description: **''Now a Feature Film Starring Bud Cort and Samantha Eggar''*--fr. cvr***

***Why Shoot the Teacher is a caustic, amiable, and unflinchingly honest account*** of one young man's first collision with reality - an ill paid teaching assignment in an isolated country school during the Great Depression.

***The young man is Max Braithwaite, now one of this country's most successful authors and freelance writers.*** The story he has to tell is riotous, grim, candid and infinitely entertaining. This is a Braithwaite at his vintage best and the humor that earned him the ***1972 Leacock Memorial Medal*** is here in rich abundance.

Here, too, is the ***de-humanizing desolation*** of the ***"Dirty Thirties"*** on the ***Saskatchewan Prairies***, the ordeal of youth among a populace bereft of pity and charity, and the human compassion that ***adds warmth and poignancy to Braithwaite's recollections***.
Subjects: 1930s 1960s Ann biography Canada Canadian Canadian author Canadian fiction Canadian literature children's classics depression depression era education fiction film funny Great Depression humor jmb- Max Braithwaite, Adult, Non-fiction, Classic, Canadian, Literature, Memoir, 1972 Leacock Award, Novel, Hardcover, Paperback, Dirty 30s, Dirty Thirties, Sasktatchewan, Prairie, Teachers, Biography, Social life and customs, Enseignants, Biographies, Manners and customs
Places: Saskatchewan
Time periods: 20th Century / 1930s