The Rehearsal - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Eleanor Catton was awarded the 2013 Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries. Her first novel, The Rehearsal, won the 2009 Betty Trask Award and the Adam Prize in Creative Writing, and was long-listed for the Orange Prize and short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an MA in fiction writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters. Born in Canada, Catton was raised in New Zealand, where she now lives. Klappentext After a teacher has an affair with an underage student, a group of teenage girls gains a new awareness of their own power to attract and manipulate, and when a local drama group turns the story of the affair into their year-end show, reality and drama merge.

Report

"A wildly brilliant and precocious first novel . . . this young writer is astonishingly talented, and her writing can steal any scene."-Adam Ross, New York Times Book Review

Product details

• Authors: Eleanor Catton
• Publisher: Little Brown USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 24.08.2011, delayed
• EAN: 9780316074322
• ISBN: 978-0-316-07432-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Reagan Arthur Books; Reagan Arthur Books
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature