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The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton

ISBN: 9781847081254
Release Date: 06 Jul 2009
Average rating: (read by 6 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

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.

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	Wrabbit Full Review
	Rated it 4 months ago

I was torn between devouring this book and prolonging this read so I could simmer in its brilliance.
This is amazing writing -- the prose is erudite and meaning layered, but without pretention. The teen and adult characters are equally as interesting...

	bookarmy Full Review
	Rated it 8 months ago

The Rehearsal is Catton's excellent debut novel. The characters of the novel are all performers – a saxophone teacher and her host of students, a drama student and his father who is really a one dimensional psychoanalyst, disturbed and disturbing. Each...

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