A is for ox

violence, electronic media, and the silencing of the written word

by Sanders, Barry

1994 269 pages eng

We are so used to platitudes intoning the value of reading and writing that we may have forgotten to ask what literacy really is. In A Is for Ox, Barry Sanders brilliantly shows how the answer to this question takes us to the heart of the twin crises of youth violence and illiteracy. By reminding us…