Natalie Holmes’ exceptional directing rivals many adults. The story follows the challenges Sylvia faces as a new teacher encountering the bureaucracy and student apathy. Seton School’s 2011 Senior Class’s lively production of Up the Down Staircase was touched with the poignancy that brought success to the 1965 Bel Kaufman novel and the mid-60s play and film, dramatized by Christopher Sergel. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Although on the surface Calvin Coolidge High School is a place with “kids sprawling in the classrooms, yawning in assembly and pushing through the halls,” Sylvia Barrett, the optimistic young English teacher, finds that her students are much more than a “pupil load.” “Every nuance of human emotion is detailed like the brushstrokes in a fine landscape.” - The Cincinnati Enquirer
“It is a book that should be meaningful to anyone who has ever been married, divorced, separated or simply scared of losing someone.” - The Dallas Morning News "A cornucopia, pouring out an extraordinary abundance of wit, warmth, suspense, insight, compassion, and other valuables.” -Sheldon Harnick, lyricist for Fiddler on the Roof “These pages are full of laughter, poetry, anguish, and human beings." -Marian Seldes, Tony Award–winning actress “Many thanks for writing with so much honesty and emotion.” -Alfred Kazin, author and literary critic an occasion for congratulation.” -John Barkham, book critic “A book that grabs and holds.” - New York Post A raging torrent.” - The New York Times Book Review has captured the middle-aged adolescent in this novel as she did the teenager in her first.” - Los Angeles Times “Kaufman is an excellent writer, witty and perceptive. “A big, messy, good-natured circling around the raw center of divorce.
Thank goodness for Bel Kaufman.” - The Washington Post
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