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Miss Giardino Paperback - 1997

by Dorothy Bryant; Afterword by Janet Zandy

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Recovering in the hospital after a mysterious accident, retired San Francisco teacher Anna Giardino retraces the events of her life. As she recovers tender but painful memories of her working-class Italian American childhood, her years teaching and eventual disillusionment, she arrives at a new affirmation of her work and life. May Sarton calls the novel a "divining rod into the springs of education....We find ourselves confronted with the grandeur and despair of what it is to be a teacher."

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Miss Giardino is a rare testament to the inner life of a teacher, and to the possibility of growth and self-discovery at any age. As the novel begins, retired schoolteacher Anna Giardino is found unconscious in front of the high school where she once taught, in San Francisco's Mission District. She is unable to remember what has happened or who she is. Gradually, Anna begins to recover tender but painful memories of her Italian American, working-class childhood, of her escape through education, and of her years devoted to teaching. But Anna must acknowledge that she has arrived at the end of her career estranged - from herself, from her profession, and from the students she sought to enlighten. Only when she confronts the events surrounding her mysterious "accident" can Anna accept and affirm her life.

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  • Title Miss Giardino
  • Author Dorothy Bryant; Afterword by Janet Zandy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Feminist Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1997-10
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9781558611740 / 1558611746
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.44 x 5.43 x 0.49 in (21.44 x 13.79 x 1.24 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Women teachers
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97016088
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Library Journal, 10/15/1997, Page 99

About the author

Dorothy Bryant is a native San Franciscan, the daughter of immigrants from northern Italy. She attended public schools in the Mission District, then San Francisco State University, completing a BA in music (1950) and an MA in creative writing (1964). From 1953 to 1976 she taught music and English in Bay Area high schools and colleges, spending the most time at Contra Costa College, after moving to Berkeley in 1964. She began writing fiction and articles in 1960.
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