Sounding for Cool
by Donald Morrill
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Description
Sounding for Cool is about self-transformation, about growing up on one's own as a product of contemporary America, and about how to become not just a man, but a contributing adult in society. Donald Morrill presents the day-to-day lives of seven young men (white, black, Hispanic, immigrant, middle-class, thick-headed, poor, and smart), who for various reasons have become homeless. Placed in a Transitional Living Program facility (TLP) by the courts, these men must learn to navigate in the show more world of "normal" values and reasonable rules. Streetwise and callow, trained to seek s show lessTags
Author Information
8 Works 30 Members
Donald Morrill is a professor of English at the University of Tampa and poetry editor of The Tampa Review.
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 305.3 — Social sciences Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Groups of people People by gender or sex
- LCC
- HV863 .M67 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Protection, assistance and relief Special classes Children
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 3
- Popularity
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 2
