To Sir, with Love by E R Braithwaite
An uplifting story of the triumph of love, inspiration and hope against all odds, laced with the song and dance of austere, 1940s Britain. Ricky Braithwaite, an ex-RAF fighter pilot and Cambridge graduate, arrives in London in 1948. Despite his First Class degree in electronic engineering he is turned down for job after job in his chosen profession and discovers the reality of life as a black man in post-war England. Taking the only job he can get, Ricky begins his first teaching post, in a tough but progressive East End school. Supported by an enlightened headmaster, the determined teacher turns teenage rebelliousness into self-respect, contempt into consideration and hate into love, and on the way, Ricky himself learns that he has more in common with his students than he had realized. Funny and tough. an unlikely tale, beautifully told. - Express Stark and engaging. a poetic period piece. - Whatsonstage.com A clever re-working. beautifully judged with warmth and a lot of humour. - British Theatre Guide Ayub Khan-Din is a British Pakistani actor and playwright. His play East is East won the John Whiting and Writers' Guild Awards and the film version won Best Film at the British Comedy Awards. Other work includes Last Dance at Dum Dum and Notes on Falling Leaves, both staged by the Royal Court.In the year 1912, E.R.Braithwaite was born in British Guiana (now Guyana). He received his education at City College of New York and the University of Cambridge, and he served in the Royal Air Force during WWII. Braithwaite lived in London from 1950 to 1960, first as a schoolteacher and subsequently as a welfare worker, as chronicled in his books To Sir, With Love and Paid Servant. Guyana's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations was appointed to him in 1966. He was also a professor of English at New York University's Institute for Afro-American Affairs, a creative writing instructor at Howard University, and the author of five nonfiction works and two novels. At the age of 104, he died in 2016.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780515105193 |
| ISBN 10 | 0515105198 |
| Title | To Sir, with Love |
| Author | E R Braithwaite |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 1990-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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