The Naked Storyteller Tapa blanda - 2014

Signed by author, else clean book. Gently read.

Victoria, BC: FriesenPress, 2014. Soft cover. As New. SIGNED BY LAURA M. THOMAS on title page; As New; The central character of this book is Harry Tyke, a frustrated grade six teacher at a fictional Vancouver elementary school. After taking a storytelling workshop taught by a provocative ex-teacher named Olga, Harry begins to find the state of his existence and the education system intolerable. Through Harry's outsider perspective, Thomas vents her profound frustration with the mindless use of technology in the daily lives of children and questions contemporary ideas of what makes a happy and productive life. With scenes at Wreck Beach, Canada and Pompeii, Italy, Harry's story is part celebration of the role of storytelling in our lives and part Thomas's philosophy of a simpler life, mixed with comedic dashes of contemporary romance and tragedy. Readers will root for this unlikely hero from start to finish. - from the cover