Title: A new life
First published: 1961
Description: Sy Levin, a high school teacher beset by alcohol and bad decisions, leaves New York for the Pacific Northwest to start over, imagining that an extraordinary new life awaits him there. Soon after arriving, he realizes that he had fallen for the myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention.
Subjects: College teachers, Fiction, Recovering alcoholics, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, English fiction, Teachers, CUENTOS ESTADOUNIDENSES
Places: Pacific Northwest, United States