Hummingbirds: A NovelA 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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User Review - MlleEhreen - LibraryThingSet at an elite Manhattan all girls high school, HUMMINGBIRDS is a novel of simmering high-school angst, from the perspective of the teachers as well as the students, and is not the dishy, Gossip Girl ... Read full review
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User Review - alanna1122 - LibraryThingAUDIO VERSION. This book was a really strange read - or since it was the audio book - a really strange listen? It was very uneven and kept meandering in the slowest way - taking time to deviate to all ... Read full review
Contents
Section 24 | 203 |
Section 25 | 207 |
Section 26 | 215 |
Section 27 | 223 |
Section 28 | 233 |
Section 29 | 247 |
Section 30 | 257 |
Section 31 | 263 |
Section 9 | 71 |
Section 10 | 77 |
Section 11 | 87 |
Section 12 | 93 |
Section 13 | 103 |
Section 14 | 111 |
Section 15 | 119 |
Section 16 | 127 |
Section 17 | 135 |
Section 18 | 143 |
Section 19 | 149 |
Section 20 | 167 |
Section 21 | 177 |
Section 22 | 187 |
Section 23 | 195 |
Section 32 | 269 |
Section 33 | 275 |
Section 34 | 285 |
Section 35 | 293 |
Section 36 | 299 |
Section 37 | 305 |
Section 38 | 309 |
Section 39 | 319 |
Section 40 | 329 |
Section 41 | 337 |
Section 42 | 343 |
Section 43 | 345 |
Section 44 | 346 |
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| Title | Hummingbirds: A Novel |
| Author | Joshua Gaylord |
| Publisher | Harper Collins, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0061769010, 9780061769016 |
| Length | 342 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / General |
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