- New Zealand Book Award for Fiction 2009 · Shortlist
The Rehearsal
The Rehearsal
Eleanor Catton (born 1985)
English editions
Written in EnglishThe Rehearsal
Granta Books · United Kingdom · 7 March 2024 · Paperback · 316 pages
The Rehearsal
Victoria University Press · New Zealand · 2008 · 316 pages
The Rehearsal
Granta Books · United Kingdom · July 2009 · Hardcover · 316 pages
The Rehearsal
Granta Books · United Kingdom · 2010 · 320 pages
The Rehearsal
Little, Brown and Company · United States · 2010 · 312 pages
The Rehearsal
Little, Brown and Company · United States · 24 August 2011 · Paperback · 336 pages
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The scandal at the high school is that Victoria, an older pupil, has been sleeping with Mr Saladin, who teaches music; the adults call it abuse, her classmates insist it was her choice, and all of them are sent to counselling. Her fifteen-year-old sister Isolde, who studies the saxophone with a teacher who knows about the affair, is drawn to Julia, a girl who goads the counsellor. Meanwhile Stanley, newly accepted by an elite drama institute and hungry for his teachers' attention, finds that his class's end-of-year show will be about the Saladin affair. When he starts seeing Isolde, the real events and their staging begin to merge, and every act starts to feel like a performance.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 316 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2008 by Victoria University Press
- Author's age
- 23 when first published
- ISBN
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9780864735812 (Victoria University Press, New Zealand)
9781847081162 (Granta Books, United Kingdom)
9781847081391 (Granta Books, United Kingdom)
9780316074339 (Little, Brown and Company, United States)
9780316074322 (Little, Brown and Company, United States)
9781783788156 (Granta Books, United Kingdom)
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