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A vertiginous black comedy by one of France's most exciting new novelists
Winner of France's most prestigious prize for a first novel, School's Out is a gripping re-imagining of Lord of the Flies, at once scarier and funnier than its prototype. When high school teacher Éric Capadis is found dead, an apparent suicide, his friend Pierre Hoffman takes over his class. The students in 9F are well behaved yet oddly menacing. Hoffman's colleagues warn him to watch out for them. But it's only when he agrees to accompany his charges on a school trip to the Normandy coast that he begins to understand the reason for their bizarre solidarity. School's Out is a triumph of nihilism and surreal wit.
Winner of France's most prestigious prize for a first novel, School's Out is a gripping re-imagining of Lord of the Flies, at once scarier and funnier than its prototype. When high school teacher Éric Capadis is found dead, an apparent suicide, his friend Pierre Hoffman takes over his class. The students in 9F are well behaved yet oddly menacing. Hoffman's colleagues warn him to watch out for them. But it's only when he agrees to accompany his charges on a school trip to the Normandy coast that he begins to understand the reason for their bizarre solidarity. School's Out is a triumph of nihilism and surreal wit.
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In this brilliant and surreal French thriller, a teacher commits suicide and a colleague takes over his class of strangely unsettling children. A novel that skates close to fantasy, it is also chillingly observant about our society and the children it produces.
About the Author:
Christophe Dufossé is a former schoolteacher who lives in Paris. School’s Out is his first novel.
Shaun Whiteside‘s translations from the French include novels by Amélie Nothomb, Michèle Desbordes, and Patrick Rambaud.
Shaun Whiteside‘s translations from the French include novels by Amélie Nothomb, Michèle Desbordes, and Patrick Rambaud.
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0143038117
- ISBN 13 9780143038115
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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