Flanders Point
  • Published:
    Jun-1997 (Hardcover)
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    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    336
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A young girl at a Connecticut private school falls in love with her English teacher in this turbulent and tender first novel by the winner of the Yale University Willet Prize.

Flanders Point is a spit of land on the Connecticut shore of Long Island Sound, the site of a small, financially troubled girls' prep school called Haddam. To this school comes Charlotte Delafield, a gawky teen hoping to surmount the aftermath of her parents' difficult divorce, and Brian Parton, a restless young writer and English teacher. Through the everyday events of Charlotte's senior year--conflicts and misunderstanding in the classroom, as well as flashes of inspiration and learning, an annual outdoor Shakespeare production, and walks in the still, wild marshland of Flanders Point--the two find themselves drawn to each other. Under increasing emotional pressure, the barrier between student and teacher cracks but does not break--until graduation day.

In Flanders Point, Jacquie Gordon shows the promise of early Pat Conroy. And the novel conjures up those other coming-of-age classics we all treasure, like A Separate Peace and Catcher in the Rye.
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    • First Edition
    • Jun-1997
    • St. Martin's
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 031215531X
    • ISBN13: 9780312155315
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    • Sep-2014
    • St. Martin's
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1466881089
    • ISBN13: 9781466881082
    •  
    • Sep-2014
    • St. Martin's
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Oct-1997
    • G.K. Hall & Company
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0783882955
    • ISBN13: 9780783882956
    • Large Print



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