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The Lessons

Naomi Alderman

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English
Penguin
06 July 2011
A modern-day Brideshead Revisited- a group of friends at university, then several years after, when hopes have been shattered and friends and lovers betrayed

In The Lessons a close-knit group of friends forms at Oxford around the mercurial, charismatic figure of Mark, whose rackety trust-fund upbringing has left him as troubled and dangerously unpredictable as he is wildly promiscuous. After graduation the group fragments, each locked in his or her own suddenly adult, pedestrian world. But Mark's influence is still strong...
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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 131mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   205g
ISBN:   9780141025964
ISBN 10:   0141025964
Pages:   288
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Naomi Alderman was born in London and brought up in the Orthodox Jewish community in Hendon where she still lives. She is a graduate of the UEA Creative Writing Course.

Reviews for The Lessons

A world as beautiful and sinister as any in a fairytale. A pleasure to read * Independent * A glittering style, a compulsive pleasure. A seductive homage to Donna Tartt and Brideshead Revisited * Metro * Remarkable. Alderman is a supremely talented writer * Joanne Harris *


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