The Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found
by:
Don J. Snyder (author)
In this moving, clear-eyed memoir, the author of A Soldier's Disgrace and From the Point chronicles his journey from college professor to a day laborer on food stamps, capturing in powerful detail the economic free fall so many middle-class Americans fear--and reminding them of the things they so...
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In this moving, clear-eyed memoir, the author of A Soldier's Disgrace and From the Point chronicles his journey from college professor to a day laborer on food stamps, capturing in powerful detail the economic free fall so many middle-class Americans fear--and reminding them of the things they so often take for granted. 256 pp. Author tour. Print ads. 35,000 print.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316803489 (0316803480)
ASIN: 316803480
Publish date: July 20th 1998
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
A boomer falls from grace and finds peace and happiness in an unexpected place. Don Snyder was a much-loved professor of English at Colgate University. He had a happy home life, with a loving, supportive wife and several young children. His students admired and appreciated him. He was very good at w...