Daughters of the Revolution |
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Author:
| Cooke, Carolyn |
ISBN: | 978-0-307-74146-2 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2012 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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In 1968, a clerical mistake threatens the prestigious but cash-strapped Goode School in the small New England town of Cape Wilde. After a century of all-male, old-boy education,the schoolaccidentally admits its first female student- Carole Faust, a brilliant, outspoken, fifteen-year-old black girl whose arrival will have both an immediate and long-term effect on the prep school and everyone in its orbit. There's the school's philandering headmaster, Goddard "God" Byrd, who...
More DescriptionIn 1968, a clerical mistake threatens the prestigious but cash-strapped Goode School in the small New England town of Cape Wilde. After a century of all-male, old-boy education,the schoolaccidentally admits its first female student- Carole Faust, a brilliant, outspoken, fifteen-year-old black girl whose arrival will have both an immediate and long-term effect on the prep school and everyone in its orbit.
There's the school's philandering headmaster, Goddard "God" Byrd, who had promised co-education "over his dead body" and who finds his syllabi full of dead white males and patriarchal tradition constantly challenged; there's EV, the daughter of God's widowed mistress who watches Carole's actions as she grows older with wide eyes and admiration; and, finally, there's Carole herself, who bears the singular challenge of being the First Girl in a world that's not quite ready to embrace her.