Cover of The rehearsal

The rehearsal

by Eleanor Catton

3.4
(21 ratings)
336 pages2008Reagan Arthur Book/Little, Brown and Co.ISBN 9780316074339

About this book

A teacher's affair with his underage student jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own power. Their nascent desires surprise even themselves as they find the practice room where they rehearse with their saxophone teacher is the safe place where they can test out their abilities to attract and manipulate. It seems their every act is a performance, every platform a stage. But when the local drama school turns the story into their year-end show, the real world and the world of the theater are forced to meet. With the dates of the performances--the musicians' and the acting students'--approaching, the dramas, real and staged, begin to resemble each other, until they merge in a climax worthy of both life and art.

Publication Details

Publisher
Reagan Arthur Book/Little, Brown and Co.
Published
2008
Pages
336
ISBN
9780316074339
Language
en

About Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton MNZM (born 1985) is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Her second novel, *The Luminaries*, won the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Man_Booker_Prize">2013 Man Booker Prize</a>.

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