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Burro Genius: A Memoir par Victor Villasenor
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Burro Genius: A Memoir (édition 2004)

par Victor Villasenor (Auteur)

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Standing at the podium, Victor Villaseñor looked at the group of educators amassed before him, and his mind flooded with childhood memories of humiliation and abuse at the hands of his teachers. He became enraged. With a pounding heart, he began to speak of these incidents. When he was through, to his great disbelief he received a standing ovation. Many in the audience could not contain their own tears. So begins the passionate, touching memoir of Victor Villaseñor. Highly gifted and imaginative as a child, Villaseñor coped with an untreated learning disability (he was finally diagnosed, at the age of forty-four, with extreme dyslexia) and the frustration of growing up Latino in an English-only American school in the 1940s. Despite teachers who beat him because he could not speak English, Villaseñor clung to his dream of one day becoming a writer. He is now considered one of the premier writers of our time.… (plus d'informations)
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Titre:Burro Genius: A Memoir
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Info:Rayo (2004), Edition: 1, 336 pages
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Just couldn't get into it, abandoned August 2013
  readingjag | Nov 29, 2021 |
Autobiography of a dyslexic Mexican child growing up in 1940s Southern California. He writes with such passion and fervor. There is something about his writing that just speaks directly to my soul. ( )
  BookConcierge | Jan 28, 2016 |
Loved it :)
  sandye33 | May 19, 2015 |
The books begins when the author is unexpectedly asked (he volunteers)to speak at a California convention of English teachers. His talk, more of harangue and justifiably so, centers around his early experiences with teachers who told him he was stupid because he was Mexican. The book is written in a story-telling fashion as is the custom with many Mejicanos that is beautiful - the trials and tribulations of going from one school to another - encountering non-supportive teachers, losing his brother to a drunken doctor and rising above and becoming a successful writer - the message is that love, compassion and forgiveness only matter. It's a tear jerker. ( )
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What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'd been writing for thirteen years, received over 260 rejections, and had just gotten - - thank God - - my first book published!
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Standing at the podium, Victor Villaseñor looked at the group of educators amassed before him, and his mind flooded with childhood memories of humiliation and abuse at the hands of his teachers. He became enraged. With a pounding heart, he began to speak of these incidents. When he was through, to his great disbelief he received a standing ovation. Many in the audience could not contain their own tears. So begins the passionate, touching memoir of Victor Villaseñor. Highly gifted and imaginative as a child, Villaseñor coped with an untreated learning disability (he was finally diagnosed, at the age of forty-four, with extreme dyslexia) and the frustration of growing up Latino in an English-only American school in the 1940s. Despite teachers who beat him because he could not speak English, Villaseñor clung to his dream of one day becoming a writer. He is now considered one of the premier writers of our time.

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