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Title: Alone in the Classroom
Author: Elizabeth Hay
Narrator: Tandy Cronyn
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-15-16
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Having earned a Scotiabank Giller Prize for her poignant novel Late Nights on Air, best-selling author Elizabeth Hay further enhances her literary legacy with another complex, captivating drama, Alone in the Classroom.
Set in Saskatchewan and the Ottawa Valley, this finely honed tale begins in 1929 with a small-town schoolteacher helping an underprivileged child learn to read - all under the watchful eye of the school's domineering, enigmatic principal. From there the story takes listeners on a mesmerizing journey probing the roots of obsession and revealing how the pains and passions of childhood follow us into adulthood and beyond.
Members Reviews:
Simply a marvel
"Alone in the Classroom" is such a wonderful story and one recommended by some of the best reviewers on Amazon that I'm surprised at how little attention it garnered. Elizabeth Hay's story of a family history reaching back to the 1920's and up to the current day might remind a reader of "Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner where the narrative is drawn from the diaries and oral history of ancestors that's given voice by modern day descendent who projects on to those ancestors emotions, feelings, voice and action. In Stegner's case I found the writing a bit uninspired but here the technique seems to work beautifully with tension, surprises, insights and splendid prose.
And it is the writing that really drew me in. "A shadow fell over them. Parley moved through the school like mustard gas in subtle form. You were aware afterwards that you'd been poisoned." is how Hay describes a new principal / teach that has started at the school where much of the early story takes place.
Immediately an uneasy feeing about Parley Burns sits in your lap. Connie Flood a new teacher and only 19 is the only one to challenge Burns and see him as both alluring and threatening. She is idealistic. She seeks out new ways to reach students. Her life becomes the center of Hay's story as told by her niece some 70 years later. At some points Connie speaks for herself and at other times her niece Anne projects or speaks for herself. There are times when there is a bit of confusion as to who is the grandmother or the daughter or the father as Hay tells both a story of Anne's paternal and maternal sides but ultimately it's clear and the writing is both a joy to read and chock full of brilliant observation.
On corporal punishment that she finally caves into Hay writes about Connie:
"Something terrible had happened to her when she strapped that boy. The pleasure she had felt, whamming his powerless, insubordinate hand, shamed her. The savage satisfaction. No wonder punishment ruled the world. She recalled in the same breath Parley's arousal when he beat the snake to a pulp, and felt revolted by herself."'
The story itself is a meditation on the hold our family histories have on us and how we remember events. Anne is struggling with why her Aunt Connie whom she rarely sees has such an impact on her life.
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Title: Alone in the Classroom
Author: Elizabeth Hay
Narrator: Tandy Cronyn
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-15-16
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Having earned a Scotiabank Giller Prize for her poignant novel Late Nights on Air, best-selling author Elizabeth Hay further enhances her literary legacy with another complex, captivating drama, Alone in the Classroom.
Set in Saskatchewan and the Ottawa Valley, this finely honed tale begins in 1929 with a small-town schoolteacher helping an underprivileged child learn to read - all under the watchful eye of the school's domineering, enigmatic principal. From there the story takes listeners on a mesmerizing journey probing the roots of obsession and revealing how the pains and passions of childhood follow us into adulthood and beyond.
Members Reviews:
Simply a marvel
"Alone in the Classroom" is such a wonderful story and one recommended by some of the best reviewers on Amazon that I'm surprised at how little attention it garnered. Elizabeth Hay's story of a family history reaching back to the 1920's and up to the current day might remind a reader of "Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner where the narrative is drawn from the diaries and oral history of ancestors that's given voice by modern day descendent who projects on to those ancestors emotions, feelings, voice and action. In Stegner's case I found the writing a bit uninspired but here the technique seems to work beautifully with tension, surprises, insights and splendid prose.
And it is the writing that really drew me in. "A shadow fell over them. Parley moved through the school like mustard gas in subtle form. You were aware afterwards that you'd been poisoned." is how Hay describes a new principal / teach that has started at the school where much of the early story takes place.
Immediately an uneasy feeing about Parley Burns sits in your lap. Connie Flood a new teacher and only 19 is the only one to challenge Burns and see him as both alluring and threatening. She is idealistic. She seeks out new ways to reach students. Her life becomes the center of Hay's story as told by her niece some 70 years later. At some points Connie speaks for herself and at other times her niece Anne projects or speaks for herself. There are times when there is a bit of confusion as to who is the grandmother or the daughter or the father as Hay tells both a story of Anne's paternal and maternal sides but ultimately it's clear and the writing is both a joy to read and chock full of brilliant observation.
On corporal punishment that she finally caves into Hay writes about Connie:
"Something terrible had happened to her when she strapped that boy. The pleasure she had felt, whamming his powerless, insubordinate hand, shamed her. The savage satisfaction. No wonder punishment ruled the world. She recalled in the same breath Parley's arousal when he beat the snake to a pulp, and felt revolted by herself."'
The story itself is a meditation on the hold our family histories have on us and how we remember events. Anne is struggling with why her Aunt Connie whom she rarely sees has such an impact on her life.