Schooling

Heather McGowan

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Vintage Books
15 June 2002

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

Heather McGowan's widely praised first novel introduces a literary artist of consummate skill, and a narrative voice of astonishing sensitivity and sensuousness. Tracking every mercurial shift of her character's consciousness, the result is dreamy, disquieting, and achingly alive.

Schooling is a portrait of an adolescent girl, thirteen-year-old Catrine Evans, who following her mother's death is uprooted from her home in America to an English boarding school. There she encounters classmates who sniff glue and engage in arson and instructors who make merciless fun of her accent. She also finds the sympathetic chemistry teacher Mr. Gilbert, who offers Catrine the friendship she so desperately wants-a friendship that gradually takes on sinister and obsessive overtones.

By: Heather McGowan
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 289g
ISBN: 9780375714320
ISBN 10: 0375714324
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 15 June 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Heather McGowan lives Providence, Rhode Island.

Reviews for Schooling

Stunningly beautiful, earnest and aching and astonishing and sad.... The most haunting novel of the year. -Detroit Free Press Mesmerizing.... Does a dazzling job of conveying the hormonal impatience and doomy romanticism of adolescence. -The New York Times A thrilling, crystalline novel of adolescent consciousness, a brilliantly unflinching marriage of lyricism and erudition, a book which, like the best books, contains a whole, urgent, and unforgettable world. --Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn

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