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Powerfully written and compelling, Borkowski's story is unique. Although he eventually became a professor, he was shot as a fifteen year old hoodlum. His book describes the silences of working-class culture and the male subculture of Staten Island, as well as the complicated interpersonal relations of his Italian American and Polish American family . . . An important contribution to the understanding of working-class life in the late twentieth century in the U.S. --Ray Mazurek, Penn State State University A riveting account of how a working-class boy turns himself into a middle-class academic. Borkowski's route is the not the standard route followed by many who took the same path. He is not the 'Scholarship Boy' identified early on by teachers as both gifted and talented and destined to succeed. Rather, he lives out the narrative of disaffected, dangerous kids who prefer life on the streets to life in classrooms. Against all odds, however, Borkowski turns himself into a--'Teacher Man'--a professor who finds his calling and his voice in the college classroom. --Sondra Perl, CUNY Graduate CenterAn important contribution to the understanding of working-class life in the late twentieth century in the United States. Ray Mazurek, Penn State State University

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David Borkowski is Associate Professor of English at William Paterson University.

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