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The English teacher
- Title
- The English teacher / a novel by Lily King.
- Author
- King, Lily
- Publication
- New York : Grove Press, [2005]
- ©2005
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 08-711 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 244 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- Fifteen years ago Vida Avery arrived alone and pregnant at elite Fayer Academy. By living on campus, on an island off the New England coast, Vida has cocooned herself and her son, Peter, from the outside world and from an inside secret. For years she has lived largely through the books she teaches, but when she accepts the impulsive marriage proposal of ardent widower Tom Belou, the prescribed life Vida has constructed is swiftly dismantled. As Vida begins teaching her signature book, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, a tale of an ostracized woman and social injustice, its themes begin to echo eerily in her own life and Peter sees that the mother he perceived as indomitable is collapsing and it is up to him to help.
- A single mother has sheltered her son for many years at the private school where she works as an English teacher, but she is beginning to unravel as secrets from her past catch up with her.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 08-711
- ISBN
- 9780802142665 (pb)
- 0802142664 (pb)
- OCLC
- 495910516
- Author
- King, Lily, author.
- Title
- The English teacher / a novel by Lily King.
- Publisher
- New York : Grove Press, [2005]
- Copyright Date
- ©2005
- Edition
- First Grove Press edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- LCCN
- 2005045384
- Research Call Number
- JFD 08-711