Miss Giardino

Recovering in the hospital after a mysterious accident, retired San Francisco teacher Anna Giardino retraces the events of her life. As she recovers tender but painful memories of her working-class Italian American childhood, her years teaching and eventual disillusionment, she arrives at a new affirmation of her work and life. May Sarton calls the novel a divining rod into the springs of education....We find ourselves confronted with the grandeur and despair of what it is to be a teacher.

Author: Dorothy Bryant
Publisher: Feminist Press
Published: 10/01/1997
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.43w x 0.49d
ISBN13: 9781558611740
ISBN10: 1558611746
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | General

About the Author
Dorothy Bryant is a native San Franciscan, the daughter of immigrants from northern Italy. She attended public schools in the Mission District, then San Francisco State University, completing a BA in music (1950) and an MA in creative writing (1964). From 1953 to 1976 she taught music and English in Bay Area high schools and colleges, spending the most time at Contra Costa College, after moving to Berkeley in 1964. She began writing fiction and articles in 1960.