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Trust Exercise

Susan Choi

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English
Granta
03 March 2020
'An alchemical work that blends truth and art into a heady, addictive brew' Atlantic

Sarah and David are in love - the obsessive, uncertain love of teenagers on the edge of adulthood. They have just started their first term at a performing arts school, where the rules are made by their magnetic drama instructor. Enclosing his students in a rarefied bubble where performance is everything, Mr Kingsley initiates them into a dangerous game that blurs the boundary between teacher and students.

Two decades on we learn that what we were told about these teenagers' lives is not completely true, but not completely false either. The real story surrounding Sarah, David and their fellow students is larger and darker than we imagined, and the consequences have lasted a lifetime.

Trust Exercise is an enthralling, captivating novel about how we define consent and what we lose, gain and never get over as we navigate our way into adulthood.

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Imprint:   Granta
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Height: 196mm,  Width: 128mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   230g
ISBN:   9781788161688
ISBN 10:   1788161688
Pages:   272
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Susan Choi is the author of five novels: Trust Exercise, My Education, American Woman, A Person of Interest and The Foreign Student. She has been a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award and the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and is the winner of the Asian-American Literary Award for Fiction. Choi was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award in 2010 and is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches at Yale and lives with her family in Brooklyn.

Reviews for Trust Exercise

Remarkable ... a phosphorescent examination of sexual consent -- Top Books of 2019 * The New York Times * Tense and lovely -- Best Books of 2019 * New Yorker * Tricksy and beguiling -- Books of the Year * Economist * Unputdownable -- Must-Read Books of 2019 * Time Magazine * Spellbinding -- Best Books of 2019 * Elle Magazine * Trust Exercise is Choi's fifth novel, and without a doubt her most ingenious yet. Sure, submitting to it is a trust exercise all of its own, but the razzmatazz that awaits is well worth it. -- Lucy Scholes * FT *


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