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Description for Schooling
Paperback. Catrine Evans, a young American, is sent to an English boarding school after her mother dies of cancer. Thrust into an unfriendly world and ridiculed for her accent, Catrine lays bare her thoughts in a luminous stream-of-consciousness narrative. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 226. Clean copy with some slight markings to the page edges, otherwise a clean copy
Caitrin Jones, a young American, is sent to an English boarding school after her mother dies of cancer. Thrust into an unfriendly world and ridiculed for her American accent, Caitrin lays bare her thoughts and feelings in a luminous stream-of-consciousness narrative. Memories of Isabelle, the best friend she left behind in Maine, give way to dreams haunted by images of an accidental death she believes they caused before she left for England; newly awakened hopes and desires interweave with the old as she gradually adjusts to her new environment. When she begins a relationship with her chemistry teacher, her language ... Read more
Caitrin Jones, a young American, is sent to an English boarding school after her mother dies of cancer. Thrust into an unfriendly world and ridiculed for her American accent, Caitrin lays bare her thoughts and feelings in a luminous stream-of-consciousness narrative. Memories of Isabelle, the best friend she left behind in Maine, give way to dreams haunted by images of an accidental death she believes they caused before she left for England; newly awakened hopes and desires interweave with the old as she gradually adjusts to her new environment. When she begins a relationship with her chemistry teacher, her language ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571206711
SKU
KSS0001485
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
Reviews for Schooling
'It is a comfort to find the real thing... and this unsettling, imperfect, but formidable debut is no exception.' Times Literary Supplement; 'I want to say Schooling is the best book I've ever read... and the only book quite unlike any other. It gives you faith that novels can be different' London Review of Books