The Cliff Walk

A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found

Paperback, 272 pages

English language

Published July 20, 1998 by Back Bay Books.

ISBN:
978-0-316-80348-9
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OCLC Number:
39637167

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I really don't know how I feel about this book. The author is a good writer, and does a good job of describing the turmoil going on inside his head. But, through most of the book, he comes across as a self-absorbed jerk, who points fingers rather than attempting real solutions. 3/4 through the book, I was just angry at a guy who could just let his family devolve into poverty while he continued to spend money they didn't have, and continued to be too proud to ask for help and just find any freaking job. God, I could only hope I could handle unemployment better than he did!

Subjects

  • True stories of endurance & survival
  • Politics / Current Events
  • General
  • College teachers
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Politics - Current Events
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Labor & Industrial Relations - General
  • Job security
  • Labor
  • Biography & Autobiography / General
  • Case studies
  • United States
  • Dismissal of
  • Downsizing of organizations