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      Schooling

      by Heather McGowan
      Published
      Jun 2001
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      320
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      Heather McGowan's widely praised first novel introduces a literary artist of consummate skill, and a narrative voice of astonishing sensitivity and sensuousness. Tracking every mercurial shift of her character's consciousness, the result is dreamy, disquieting, and achingly alive.

      Schooling is a portrait of an adolescent girl, thirteen-year-old Catrine Evans, who following her mother's death is uprooted from her home in America to an English boarding school. There she encounters classmates who sniff glue and engage in arson and instructors who make merciless fun of her accent. She also finds the sympathetic chemistry teacher Mr. Gilbert, who offers Catrine the friendship she so desperately wants–a friendship that gradually takes on sinister and obsessive overtones.

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      Jun 2002 Vintage ISBN13 9780375714320 ISBN10 0375714324
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      First Edition Jun 2001 Doubleday ISBN13 9780385501385 ISBN10 0385501382
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      Dec 2007 Knopf ISBN13 9780307427632 ISBN10 0307427633
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      Dec 2007 Vintage ISBN10 B000XUADQS
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      Jun 2001 Wheeler ISBN13 9781587240485 ISBN10 1587240483
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