Light at Midnight

By Matthew A. Fike

Book Overview

Light at Midnight chronicles Matthew A. Fike's adventures and misadventures as a founding faculty member of the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG), the first American liberal arts institution in Central or Eastern Europe. During his self-imposed exile, Fike loved well, fought hard, enjoyed terrific friendships, deepened his pedagogical and scholarly portfolios, bought and lived on a high-end blue water sailboat, experienced a minor psychic awakening, visited the afterlife, and traveled to Moscow to find romance. In the course of these events, however, his exile from traumatic experiences in the Midwest became A European Journey to greater self-understanding. This book thus provides not only an eyewitness to a key moment in the history of higher education but also a well-written, brutally honest, and often hilarious account of a young man's coming of age. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441587306
• ISBN13: 9781441587305
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Xlibris
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"