A Private Place - Brossura

Craig, Amanda

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0586216928 ISBN 13: 9780586216927

Casa editrice: Flamingo, 1992

Riassunto

Written by the author of "Foreign Bodies", this is a frightening story of adolescent power-games and sex-games played out among the beautiful, crumbling neo-classical buildings of a progressive public school.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Amanda Craig was born in 1959. She is married, with two children, lives in London and reviews widely.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

Knotshead is a progressive boarding school in the West Country. It looks like Arcadia but its staff are blinded by ideology and its pupils hypnotised by snobbery, sex and the sadistic Johnny Tore.

When Winthrop T. Sheen, a mush-expelled American preppy, arrives he falls in love with the chaste and despised Alice, setting off a school underground power struggle that leads from fear and loathing to the greatest crime of them all.

This is a magical novel of politics, hate, music, the crushing of innocence and redemption through love. Nobody who has seen the public face of co-education should be without 'A Private Place'.

‘Ruthless honesty and jet black wit.’
KATE SAUNDERS, 'Cosmopolitan'

‘Genuinely gripping.’
HARRIET WAUGH, 'Spectator'

‘A delicate love story, a touching 'Bildungsroman' for our troubled time.’
VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM, 'Observer'

‘An intelligent fairy tale. Craig writes clearly and wittily with all the smart observations that made her first book more than just romantic pap.’
TIME OUT

‘An original tale of anarchy’
MAUREEN OWEN, 'Daily Mail'

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Flamingo
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0586216928
• ISBN 13: 9780586216927
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256