Rosemary Cania Maio

Those Who Give Rosemary Cania Maio

'. . . for there is a period in life which is called the age of disillusion, which means the age at which a man discovers that his honest and generous impulses are incompatible with success in business; that the institutions he has reverenced are shams: and that he must join the conspiracy or go the wall . . . 'George Bernard Shaw THOSE WHO GIVE is about teachers in the 'age of disillusion.' It is tragedy and comedy, history and prophecy, celebration and indictment. The setting is Boesch-Conklyn Academy, a public high school in upstate New York. Structured in three parts, the novel begins with Book One: 'October 23, 1980,' moves forward in time with Book Two: 'Interim Progress Report,' and reaches its inevitable conclusion in Book Three: 'Antithesis.' Through the experiences of teachers, THOSE WHO GIVE reflects the human condition by exploring such universal themes as love, loss, greed, work ethic, betrayal, and irony.