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001 2014003161
003 DLC
005 20150910201407.0
008 140411s2014 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2014003161
020 $a9781250045355 (hardcover)
020 $z9781466844001 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPR6118.A374$bL37 2014
082 00 $a823/.92$223
084 $aFIC043000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aRankin-Gee, Rosa,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe last kings of Sark /$cRosa Rankin-Gee.
264 1 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c2014.
300 $a284 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"My name is Jude. And because of Law, Hey and the Obscure, they thought I was a boy."Jude is twenty-one when she flies in a private plane to Sark, a tiny carless Channel Island and the last place in Europe to abolish feudalism. She's been hired for the summer to tutor a rich local boy named Pip. But when Jude arrives, the family is unsettling. Pip is awkward, overly literal, and adamant he doesn't need a tutor, and upstairs, his enigmatic mother Esme; casts a shadow over the house.Enter Sofi: the family's holiday cook, a magnetic, mercurial Polish girl with appalling kitchen hygiene, who sings to herself and sleeps naked. When the father of the family goes away on business, Pip's science lessons are replaced by midday rose; and scallop-smuggling, and summer begins. Soon something powerful starts to touch the three together.But those strange, golden weeks on Sark can't last forever. Later, in Paris, Normandy and London, they find themselves looking for the moment that changed everything.Compelling, sensual, and lyrical, The Last Kings of Sark is a tale of complicated love, only children and missed opportunities, from an extraordinary new writer"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aFirst U.S. Edition.
650 0 $aTutors and tutoring$vFiction.
651 0 $aSark (Guernsey)$vFiction.
655 0 $aBildungsromans.$2gsafd
650 7 $aFICTION / Coming of Age.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/355/9781250045355/image/lgcover.9781250045355.jpg