false 92960 1 0 Up the Down Staircase. The semi-autobiographical novel is about an idealistic young honors college graduate who becomes an English teacher, hoping to share her love of classic literature (especially Chaucer) and writing with her students. However, her idealism is quickly snuffed out by the gritty realities of her colleagues and students who populate the novel's fictional inner-city high school.
Though she has written few fictional novels since Up the Down Staircase, she has continued as a teacher and lecturer. Kaufman is an honorary chairman of the Yiddish Studies faculty at Columbia University.]]> female Berlin 1911/05/10 160320 0060973617 9780060973612 75 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643320m/160320.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223643320s/160320.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160320.Up_the_Down_Staircase 3.70 661 Up the Down Staircase is one of the best-loved novels of our time. It has been translated into sixteen languages, made into a prize-winning motion picture, and staged as a play at high schools all over the United States; its very title has become part of the American idiom.

Never before has a novel so compellingly laid bare the inner workings of a metropolitan high school. Up the Down Staircase is the funny and touching story of a committed, idealistic teacher whose dash with school bureaucracy is a timeless lesson for students, teachers, parents--anyone concerned about public education. Bel Kaufman lets her characters speak for themselves through memos, letters, directives from the principal, comments by students, notes between teachers, and papers from desk drawers and wastebaskets, evoking a vivid picture of teachers fighting the good fight against all that stands in the way of good teaching.]]> 92960 3.70 690 79 1965 1434677 0135409063 9780135409060 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1434677.Love_etc_A_novel 2.75 4 92960 3.70 690 79 1979