An edition of Hummingbirds: a novel (2009)

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An edition of Hummingbirds: a novel (2009)

Hummingbirds

a novel

1st ed.
  • 1 Want to read

A wonderfully compelling debut novel about the intertwining-and darkly surprising-relationships between the teachers and students at an all-girls prep school Spend a year at the Carmine-Casey School for Girls, an elite prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side: the year when the intimate private school community becomes tempestuous and dangerously incestuous as the rivalries and secrets of teachers and students intersect and eventually collide.In the world of students, popular and coquettish Dixie Doyle, with her ironic pigtails, battles to wrest attention away from the smart and disdainful Liz Warren, who spends her time writing and directing plays based on the Oresteia. In the world of teachers, the adored Leo Binhammer struggles to share his territory with Ted Hughes, the charming new English teacher who threatens to usurp Binhammer's status as the department's only male teacher and owner of the girls' hearts. When a secret is revealed between them, Binhammer grows increasingly fascinated by the man he has determined is out to get him.As seasons change and tensions mount, the girls long for entry into the adult world, toying with their premature powers of flirtation. Meanwhile, the deceptive innocence of the adolescent world-complete with plaid skirts and scented highlighters-becomes a trap into which the flailing teachers fall. By the end of the year the line between maturity and youth begins to blur, and the question on the final exam is: Who are the adults and who are the children?

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Publisher
Harper
Language
English

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Cover of: Hummingbirds
Hummingbirds: a novel
2009, Harper
in English - 1st ed.
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Hummingbirds
2009, HarperCollins
Electronic resource in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3607.A9859 H86 2009, PS3607.A9859H86 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22853483M
Internet Archive
hummingbirdsnove00gayl
ISBN 13
9780061769016
LCCN
2008055456
OCLC/WorldCat
297222754
Library Thing
8513900
Goodreads
6535905

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