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Schooling Book
Heather McGowan's Schooling is vivid, anguished and compelling, as she focuses on Catrine's experiences at her father's old English boarding school, where she goes when her American mother dies and her Welsh father returns with her to Britain. McGowan enters not only Catrine's thoughts, but also those of her peers, her teachers and her father. She interleaves within the narrative structure myriad voices through such tropes as a play on words, a play on plays (Hamlet; Aristophanes' The Birds) and an unexpected first-person short story. The impression of a constant shift of perspective deceives the reader into frequently casting Catrine on the sidelines, one player among many, and yet she also acts as narrator, reading and recording the minds of those she encounters. Action and thought … read more...
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