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ISBN: 9780864735812
Title: Rehearsal
Author: CATTON ELEANOR
A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. The sudden and total publicity seems to turn every act into a performance, and every platform into a stage. But when the local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a show, the real world and the world of the theatre are forced to meet, and soon the boundaries between private and public begin to dissolve …
The Rehearsal is an exhilarating and provocative novel about the unsimple mess of human desire. Startlingly original, it is at once a tender evocation of its young protagonists and a shrewd expos?? of emotional compromise. It introduces a boldly inventive and extraordinarily accomplished new voice in New Zealand fiction.
Review: This is a daring book, full of velvety pleasures but never afraid to show its claws. Eleanor Catton is crazily talented and insightful – and best of all, she makes language seem new. Emily Perkins.
Winner of New Zealand Society of Authors Best First Book Awards: Hubert Church Award for Fiction 2009 and Betty Trask Award 2009. Short-listed for Dylan Thomas Prize 2010 and Montana New Zealand Book Awards: Fiction Category 2009 and Guardian First Book Award 2009.
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07/04/2008
Available stock: 1
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