The History Lesson - Mangan, Amy

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Résumé :
Liz Truman is in trouble. She's an untenured faculty member at Littleton College whose future is in the hands of a college vice president with a grudge. Her mother, teetering on emotional collapse since the death of Liz's beloved father and college president, is a constant source of irritation to Liz whom her mother calls the last living single woman in Hattaloochee, Alabama. Liz is developing a growing list of detractors. As anonymous hate letters begin to arrive to her office, Liz unleashes a series of events that exposes the ironies of academia, small towns and southern traditions. Brimming with humor and intrigue with a vivid cast of characters, The History Lesson frames universal lessons of grief, loyalty, and perseverance into one history professor's endeavor to reconcile the past with her future....

Biographie:
Amy Mangan is a writer whose work has been published in Salon, Southern Living, Better Homes and Gardens' Creative Home and Southern Accents. Her columns have appeared in numerous publications and she is the author of the memoir This Side Up: The Road to a renovated Life. Her work can be found at amymangan.com....

Sommaire:
Amy Mangan is a writer whose work has been published in Salon, Southern Living, Better Homes and Gardens' Creative Home and Southern Accents. Her columns have appeared in numerous publications and she is the author of the memoir This Side Up: The Road to a renovated Life. Her work can be found at amymangan.com....