College: A Memoir

By Stephen Akey

If you have not had the pleasure of losing your sincerity to collegiate cynicism, Stephen Akey gives you a marvelous "crash course," tuition-free. If you've been through it, College serves as a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914061550
• ISBN13: 9780914061557
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Orchises Pr
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

A book for those of us who never made it to the Ivy League

A great read for those of us who labored and persevered in getting our degrees at public universities. This book should be read by everyone ten years after finishing school just so to remind ourselves that the, "good `ole days" of college and graduate school weren't always so good. My only question is, Mr. Akey - When is your next book coming out?

The writing is astonishing.

How can someone write this well and not be nationally known? This book reads like James Dickey, pure poetry. The words are meticiously crafted. The story is both painful and exhilarating. Steve Akey has a story to tell that virtually any of us can relate to. I loved this book. Come out with another, please.

I loved this book. It humanizes geeks!

Steven Akey writes of his time in college in a way that made me relive my own (less painful, thank goodness) but largely forgotten college experience. His feelings of lonelieness and alienation are intense, and yet related with a sense of grace and humor that I found irresistable. I'll try to get my college-age kids to read this. I am sure they will find it highly entertaining, and I think they will also come away knowing that even the most pathetic and nearly invisible geek they may encounter is also liable to be a real, breathing (suffering) person different only in small ways from themselves.