by EleanorCatton (Author)
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 theatre 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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 04 Mar 2010
ISBN 10: 1847081398
ISBN 13: 9781847081391
Prizes: Winner of Betty Trask Award 2009 and New Zealand Society of Authors Best First Book Awards: Hubert Church Award for Fiction 2009. Shortlisted for Dylan Thomas Prize 2010 and Montana New Zealand Book Awards: Fiction Category 2009 and Guardian First Book Award 2009.