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No Reck'ning Made

No Reck'ning Made

Joanne Greenberg
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Raised in the poverty-stricken gulches of rural Colorado, Clara Coleman forged her dreams from the certainty of school - a place that showed her a majesty, order, and gentility that had none of the empty anger she knew at home. Clara strove for this sense of stability and became a respected teacher, principal, wife, and mother in Gold Flume, a mining town near, and not unlike, the place of her childhood. It was there that she would spend her life reaching out to children whose hunger for order and justice mirrored her own. But when change came to Gold Flume it brought a new kind of people - men and women who didn't care about the mountains or the town, who discounted decades of experience and compassion in lieu of what was current or fashionable. These people would change her life and threaten to take away, in a sense, all that she had accomplished. In No Reck'ning Made Joanne Greenberg uses her "almost miraculous sense of the complexities of the human predicament" to show us the ignorance of newcomers to the hunger, pain and struggle of the past. She depicts in clear, poignant prose the bitter price of change.
Language
English
Pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Henry Holt & Company
Release
May 01, 1995
ISBN
0805038493
ISBN 13
9780805038491

No Reck'ning Made

Joanne Greenberg
3.7/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Raised in the poverty-stricken gulches of rural Colorado, Clara Coleman forged her dreams from the certainty of school - a place that showed her a majesty, order, and gentility that had none of the empty anger she knew at home. Clara strove for this sense of stability and became a respected teacher, principal, wife, and mother in Gold Flume, a mining town near, and not unlike, the place of her childhood. It was there that she would spend her life reaching out to children whose hunger for order and justice mirrored her own. But when change came to Gold Flume it brought a new kind of people - men and women who didn't care about the mountains or the town, who discounted decades of experience and compassion in lieu of what was current or fashionable. These people would change her life and threaten to take away, in a sense, all that she had accomplished. In No Reck'ning Made Joanne Greenberg uses her "almost miraculous sense of the complexities of the human predicament" to show us the ignorance of newcomers to the hunger, pain and struggle of the past. She depicts in clear, poignant prose the bitter price of change.
Language
English
Pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Henry Holt & Company
Release
May 01, 1995
ISBN
0805038493
ISBN 13
9780805038491

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