Rehearsal

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2009
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A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. The sudden and total publicity seems to turn every act into a performance and every platform into a stage. But when the local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a show, the real world and the world of the theater are forced to meet, and soon the boundaries between private and public begin to dissolve. The Rehearsal is an exhilarating and provocative novel about the unsimple mess of human desire, at once a tender evocation of its young protagonists and a shrewd expose of emotional compromise.

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A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. The sudden and total publicity seems to turn every act into a performance and every platform into a stage. But when the local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a show, the real world and the world of the theater are forced to meet, and soon the boundaries between private and public begin to dissolve. "The Rehearsal" is an exhilarating and provocative novel about the unsimple mess of human desire, at once a tender evocation of its young protagonists and a shrewd expose of emotional compromise.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 06 Jul 2009
ISBN 10: 1847081169
ISBN 13: 9781847081162
Prizes: Winner of New Zealand Society of Authors Best First Book Awards: Hubert Church Award for Fiction 2009 and Betty Trask Award 2009. Shortlisted for Dylan Thomas Prize 2010 and Montana New Zealand Book Awards: Fiction Category 2009 and Guardian First Book Award 2009.

Author Bio

Eleanor Catton was born in 1985 in Canada and raised in New Zealand. She has received several prizes for this, her first novel, including the 2008 Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship to the Iowa Writers' Workshop - where she is currently based.