Trust exercise

In 1982 in a southern city, David and Sarah, two freshmen at a highly competitive performing arts high school, thrive alongside their school peers in a rarified bubble, ambitiously devoting themselves to their studies--to music, to movement, to Shakespeare and, particularly, to classes taught by the...

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Main Author: Choi, Susan, 1969- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2019.
Edition: First Edition.
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Summary: In 1982 in a southern city, David and Sarah, two freshmen at a highly competitive performing arts high school, thrive alongside their school peers in a rarified bubble, ambitiously devoting themselves to their studies--to music, to movement, to Shakespeare and, particularly, to classes taught by the magnetic acting teacher Mr. Kingsley. It is here in these halls that David and Sarah fall innocently and powerfully into first love. And also where, as this class of students rises through the ranks of high school, the outside world of family life and economic status, of academic pressure and the future, does not affect them--until it does--in a sudden spiral of events that brings a startling close to the first part of this novel.
Physical Description: 257 pages : 24 cm
ISBN: 9781250309884
1250309883
Author Notes: Susan Choi's first novel, The Foreign Student , won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. Her second novel, American Woman , was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into a film. Her third novel, A Person of Interest , was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. Her fourth novel, My Education , received a 2014 Lammy Award. Her fifth novel, Trust Exercise , and her first book for children, Camp Tiger , came out earlier this year. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, she teaches fiction writing at Yale and lives in Brooklyn.