Is There Life After High School? eBook Ralph Keyes
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Were you Student Body President? Cheerleader captain? Or the girl nobody asked to the prom? Or a guy nobody wanted to eat lunch with? Were you an "innie" or an "outie"? These are some of the questions raised in Is There Life After High School?.
After interviewing hundreds of people across America, obscure and famous, successful and unsuccessful, after reading countless magazine articles, books, and scholarly treatises, after listening to stacks of records, watching television and movies, and after attending all manner of reunions (from a fifth to a fiftieth), Ralph Keyes has come to the conclusion that Kurt Vonnegut was right — high school is "closer to the core of the American Experience than anything else I can think of."
Is There Life After High School? takes us cruising through the hallways of our high school memories. According to Keyes those memories are a) enduring, b) pleasurable, c) painful, d) all of the above. He makes keenly perceptive observations on why high school keeps its grip on the imagination and behavior of so many American adults. A closing section is of inestimable value for those racked with high school fever — "101 Ways to Get High School Off Your Back."
Since its publication in 1976 Is There Life After High School? has become an iconic book. A musical based on the book that opened on Broadway 1982 is still produced in theaters around the country and world.
Featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Tonight Show, 20 / 20, and “All Things Considered”
A sweetheart of a book.
– Chicago Tribune
A delightful book,
– Los Angeles Times
Thoroughly engaging.
– Washington Post
Lively, filled with facts and fun memories that will make you remember yours.
– Gene Shalit, The Today Show
Frequently poignant, occasionally profound, and very funny.
– St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Insightful and fun.
– Greensboro Daily News
Deliciously titled ... breezy ... very good book.
– National Observer
Keyes brings back the sights and sounds, and most importantly, the feelings, of our high school experience.
– Indianapolis News
Whether you were jock or bookworm, an "innie" or an "outie" you will relish the shock of recognition and, perhaps, furtively consult your yearbook. Sociology that amuses as it informs.
– Publishers Weekly
There is a lot of nostalgia and fun in here – but this is a meaningful look at the impact of adolescence spent in a unique American institution."
– Booklist
Keyes has turned in a serious psychological study. His book is funny, but it isn't frivolous.
– Santa Barbara News-Press
Witty, angst-ridden confessional of the joyous and heart-rending memories of high school ... will start up hunts for yearbooks.
– Austin American-Statesman
Unmarred by academic jargon, more intellectually respectable than pop sociology, more informative than scores of treatises on adolescent behavior, Is There Life After High School? is a joy to read.
– School Review
Is There Life After High School? eBook Ralph Keyes
Excellent book, I am surprised this is not a more popular subject area but perhaps the sociologists and anthropologists have dark and dorky feelings left over from high school and would just rather forget that period of their lives.The recounting of Nixon's Student government president was fraught with poignancy but it just shows you how little popularity plays in adult lives.
To me high school was where you first looked in the mirror and saw the little piggy face of status staring back at you.
It really is one of the first places we confront the hierarchical monkeysphere(Dunbar's number) of our lives and it can be quite a shock, coming from the idyllic forgetful dreaminess of earlier childhood.
What is extremely important in high school is your maturation date, your 'discard the childish dream and exit to adulthood' date. If you mature in eighth grade you will be the running back on the football team, and thus King Cool and knowing. However if you mature as a senior you will be Who? Who? the smallish fellow? and the best is yet to be; but status will elude you in High school but perhaps that trauma will motivate you to climb the greasy pole (as Disraeli said).
High school reunions are usually show and tell for goody goodies and if you have lived a normal anonymous bourgeois life, reunions are best left to the late-to-mature and the vengeful of the National Honor Society while the running backs can stay home and rest their artificial knees.
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Is There Life After High School? eBook Ralph Keyes Reviews
I think this book merit's a 5-star review. I mean, the popular jocks, cheer leaders and acadamian's probably wouldn't feel that way--but us late bloomer's certainly do! I am 69 year's old. High school was a 4-year window that represented less than 10% of my life. And it wasn't the best 10%, by far! If I would have read this book before my 50-year class reunion, I would NOT have attended it, nor would I have gotten involved with the committee that I recruited (as chairman), to jump start it. I can almost guarantee that if I would have been a super jock (50 years ago) or, would have lived in the "right neighborhood," that things would have gone better for me. Truth is this (a) read this book, (b) if you don't line up with what high school valued, close the door and don't go back there.
Book was considerable dirtier than expected to the point of being unpleasant to handle. I had purchased it intending it as a gift for a recent high school graduate, but the book was not acceptable for a gift.
While not a scientific analysis, it is quite interesting. Some younger readers may not be as familiar with the people quoted but they should still enjoy the book. Encouraging for those that were not the star athlete or prom queen and a cautionary tale for those that were.
Every adult can identify with the angst of American high school life, including the rally girls and the jocks, who seemed to have it all...but did they really? Universally appealing way beyond the nostalgia level. Helps to bring our painful teenage years into realistic (and sometimes amusing) focus as we regard that life segment, in context, from the distant view.
I'm approaching a high school reunion and thinking, after gobbling up the tidbits in this book, it might be considered required reading before attending all high school reunions. I found it informative, entertaining and true. I've recommended it to many friends!
For all of us who survived high school with battle fatigue, this book reveals all the other hidden troops that also are suffering from post traumatic stress and have lived to laugh about it. If it weren't for the names of celebrities and politicians that may be unfamiliar to today's teens, I'd say it should be required mental health reading for every freshman!
The first time I heard the words “Is there life after high school?” was as the title of a musical my wife and I attended. Later I learned the play had been inspired by a best-selling book. After reading Ralph Keyes’ updated edition, I discovered a marvelous tightrope act. The book balances a treasure of research on the high school experiences of celebrities and ordinary folks with a narrative that’s often self-effacing, often witty, and always compassionate. If you’re a few years beyond those hallways filled with lockers and adolescent angst (or even still in high school), you’ll find this an enlightening and enjoyable read.
Excellent book, I am surprised this is not a more popular subject area but perhaps the sociologists and anthropologists have dark and dorky feelings left over from high school and would just rather forget that period of their lives.
The recounting of Nixon's Student government president was fraught with poignancy but it just shows you how little popularity plays in adult lives.
To me high school was where you first looked in the mirror and saw the little piggy face of status staring back at you.
It really is one of the first places we confront the hierarchical monkeysphere(Dunbar's number) of our lives and it can be quite a shock, coming from the idyllic forgetful dreaminess of earlier childhood.
What is extremely important in high school is your maturation date, your 'discard the childish dream and exit to adulthood' date. If you mature in eighth grade you will be the running back on the football team, and thus King Cool and knowing. However if you mature as a senior you will be Who? Who? the smallish fellow? and the best is yet to be; but status will elude you in High school but perhaps that trauma will motivate you to climb the greasy pole (as Disraeli said).
High school reunions are usually show and tell for goody goodies and if you have lived a normal anonymous bourgeois life, reunions are best left to the late-to-mature and the vengeful of the National Honor Society while the running backs can stay home and rest their artificial knees.
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