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My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun: Adolescents at the Apocalypse: A Teacher's Notes
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My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun: Adolescents at the Apocalypse: A Teacher's Notes Hardcover - 2004

by Theo Padnos


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In a nely wrought memoir, thirty-three-year-old Theo Padnos describes his experiences teaching a literature class inside a locked prison room at the Woodstock Correctional Facility in Vermont. His students, ages seventeen to twenty-ve, stand accused of grisly, calculated crimes: beatings, rape, drug dealing, and murder. All are drifting, including the teacher himself. By rejecting standard prison safety precautions-videotape, monitored windows, an open door-Padnos creates an atmosphere of trust, and through the works of seminal American writers, enables these young prisoners to talk about their lives and the apocalyptic myths and metaphors that motivate their crimes. Armed with self-deprecating humor, Theo Padnos guides his students to discover themselves and each other through the power of the written word-and nds himself along the way. My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun is a clear-eyed work that penetrates a formerly unmapped territory and unflinchingly tackles questions that haunt us.

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Graduate school fell apart for me on a lovely afternoon in Amherst in the spring of 1997.

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  • Title My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun: Adolescents at the Apocalypse: A Teacher's Notes
  • Author Theo Padnos
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 291
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hyperion Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date January 28, 2004
  • ISBN 9780786869091 / 0786869097
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.53 x 6.38 x 1.05 in (24.21 x 16.21 x 2.67 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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