Greenberg, Joanne (Goldenberg) - Susan Dooley
SUSAN DOOLEY
What Greenberg is writing about in her gentle and perceptive book [The Far Side of Victory] is how hard it is to know the people you love—and how that knowledge, once gained, must be tenderly held….
[The Far Side of Victory] is Eric's book as he probes the mind and life of the woman he has come to love, a woman as closed as he is open. Shut into darkness by the poverty and ugliness of her childhood, she teaches him that, "There was, there must be even now, a secret race, a whole foreign race of children who yearn for school because it isn't home, whose vacations are dreaded and who watch the warming days of May creep over the desk tops with sinking hearts, made lonelier still, more bereft, because all the others count the days to summer and swarm out of the schoolhouse with joy at the end of the last day, free."
Joanne Greenberg … once more reaches to the hearts of her readers.
Susan Dooley, in a...
[The entire page is 211 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Navigate
