The Instructor |
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| Author:
| Ireland, Ann |
| ISBN: | 978-1-299-70832-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
| Publisher: | Dundurn Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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Short-listed for the Ontario Trillium Literary Award, 1996 and Discover These Great New Writers, Barnes and Noble award, 1996 In this elegant novel of passion and art, award-winning Ann Ireland extends the boundaries of the traditional love story. The Instructor probes the nature of power shifts between man and woman, teacher and student. It is a story of needs that become twisted into obsession. Simone Paris is nineteen when she leaves a small town bound for Mexico with her art...
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Short-listed for the Ontario Trillium Literary Award, 1996 and Discover These Great New Writers, Barnes and Noble award, 1996 In this elegant novel of passion and art, award-winning Ann Ireland extends the boundaries of the traditional love story. The Instructor probes the nature of power shifts between man and woman, teacher and student. It is a story of needs that become twisted into obsession. Simone Paris is nineteen when she leaves a small town bound for Mexico with her art instructor, Otto Guest. Their affair is loaded with desire, not only physical but intellectual. Theirs is a mutual addiction made up of philosophy and shared aesthetic interest, entwined with sexual fascination. Six years after their relationship crumbles, Otto returns to Simone. His reappearance triggers vivid memories which she expresses in a voice matured by experience and regret.