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    The Teacher
    The Teacher
    The Teacher
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    The Teacher

    By Dan FitzGerald

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    THE TEACHER begins with young BRIAN DESMOND teaching math at Newtown High School in Queens, New York despite a learning disability -- he cannot write legibly. He paid for his college education by fixing clocks, is fiercely independent, and aches for the respect of his sister and father, who treat him as dumb.

    A new principal comes to Newtown High with a wife, a lovely daughter and problems which threaten Brians teaching career. Martin Bernhard, a wealthy member of the Board of Education, tries to rescue Brians teaching job. In return he asks Brian to help him understand his dynamic daughter Julia, a concert violinist.

    Briefly barred from active hobbies, Brian accompanies a friend to a little theater audition which leads to involvement with actors, directors and agents in Queens, Westchester and Manhattan.

    As these various activities overlap, a crisis in Brians family clouds his perspective. He ignores local beauty Sheila Murray, and when she decides its time to look elsewhere Brian is forced to realign all of his priorities.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateFeb 21, 2012
    ISBN9781468548501
    The Teacher
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    Dan FitzGerald

    Dan FitzGerald is a business executive who acquired a journalism degree plus an MBA in New York before moving to Raleigh, North Carolina. He writes fiction, paints oil portraits and plays duplicate bridge, at which he has earned the designation of Silver Life Master.

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