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English monsters
- Title
- English monsters / James Scudamore.
- Author
- Scudamore, James, 1976-
- Publication
- London : Jonathan Cape, 2020.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFE 21-7740 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 357 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "It's the early 1980s and Max Denyer is ten years old when his globe-trotting parents send him back to England and 'the school on the hill' - a grand, imposing public school, more a refuge for its eccentric, anachronistic teaching staff than a proper place of education. For Max his two years there will be a disaster. Failing to navigate the arbitrary rules of the school's harsh traditions, the worldly, confident, curious Max enters a period of drifting that he'll struggle to shake off into his adult life. For some of the friends Max makes, however, the school on the hill will mark an even darker, determining moment in their lives. As Max tells his story of the intervening years - the listlessness, the haze of the 90s, the doomed relationships and sudden arrival of fatherhood - he falls back in with his old school friends, the precocious, princely Luke Price, and the erratic loner, Simon Drake. Each damaged but managing in their own way, the stories and allegations that surface from their shared past begin to make Max question his own memories - what did he really know and might his own lack of direction be directly tied up in the scandal?"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Boarding schools > England > Fiction
- Boarding school students > England > Fiction
- Male friendship > Fiction
- Child abuse > Fiction
- Scandals > Fiction
- Boarding school students
- Boarding schools
- Child abuse
- Male friendship
- Manners and customs
- Scandals
- England > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction
- England
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Social problem fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-7740
- ISBN
- 9781787331860
- 1787331865
- LCCN
- 2019467701
- OCLC
- 1104063024
- Author
- Scudamore, James, 1976- author.
- Title
- English monsters / James Scudamore.
- Publisher
- London : Jonathan Cape, 2020.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781473570153
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-7740