Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found

The Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found by Don J Snyder. Published by Little, Brown & Co, Boston, MA, 1997. 1st Edition1st Printing. Hardbound, Paper DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Fine in Good- DJ. 265 Pgs. ISBN 0316803081. LCCN 96-51163. The author, a married father with 3+ children, an English Professor, is fired from his job. This book chronicles his journey from privilege to desperation to a new sense of hope. With each dispiriting change in his life, selling his home, food stamps, etc., he came to see his previous assumptions about work, money & America as naive dreams. He finally found a job as an unskilled laborer on a construction site, working outside through a punishing Maine winter. As he slowly learned new skills and let go of old illusions, he found grace and dignity in a kind of work he has run from all his life. Description text copyright 2011 BooksForComfort. Item ID 25725.