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Book Description
For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years. This year, however, the wind of unwelcome change is blowing, and StContinue
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- English Books
- Paperback 448 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 0060559152
- ISBN-13: 9780060559151
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Pub date: Jan 01, 2007
- Dimensions: 20 cm x 13 cm x 3 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover and Audio CD
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What a really good novel Joanne Harris has written with Gentleman and Players. It is an enthralling and haunting read and in a new direction for this author. It really held my attention from the beginning but the last hundred pages or so I just had to keep going. It deals with deception, betrayal, a ... (continue)
What a really good novel Joanne Harris has written with Gentleman and Players. It is an enthralling and haunting read and in a new direction for this author. It really held my attention from the beginning but the last hundred pages or so I just had to keep going. It deals with deception, betrayal, ambition and forbidden longings, at an exclusive boys' school in the English countryside. The two protagonists are worthy adversaries. One is a revered, slightly eccentric Classics teacher in danger of becoming an unwanted anachronism. The other is a youngster from a working-class background who yearns for the elitism the school represents. The story alternates between the two viewpoints. The child is now an adult, exacting revenge for a devastating childhood experience involving St.Oswald's School - an experience revealed to the reader slowly and tantalizingly as the story unfolds. There is a surprising twist toward the end of the novel which really caught me out as thought I had it all sussed! Well worth reading.
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