The English Teacher
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by Lily King
"Vida Belou is the best high-school English teacher East Coast Fayer academy has had. She arrived pregnant 15 years ago claiming that her husband was on the way. But he never came and Vida and her son Peter have never left. When she suddenly marries a kindly widower and moves in to stepmother his three children, the prescribed life Vida had constructed for herself and son collapses. As Vida's known world vanishes, Peter takes control and moves them both to a place where they can begin again.
Like other authors who have tapped into the classics as inspiration for contemporary novels (Jane Hamilton in Map of The World, Michael Chabon in The Hours), Lily King adopts Tess of the Durbervilles as her literary touchstone in The English Teacher. This is a stirring, suspenseful, original novel in which she moves us into even deeper, sophisticated, psychological terrain."
"Vida Belou is the best high-school English teacher East Coast Fayer academy has had. She arrived pregnant 15 years ago claiming that her husband was on the way. But he never came and Vida and her son Peter have never left. When she suddenly marries a kindly widower and moves in to stepmother his three children, the prescribed life Vida had constructed for herself and son collapses. As Vida's known world vanishes, Peter takes control and moves them both to a place where they can begin again.
Like other authors who have tapped into the classics as inspiration for contemporary novels (Jane Hamilton in Map of The World, Michael Chabon in The Hours), Lily King adopts Tess of the Durbervilles as her literary touchstone in The English Teacher. This is a stirring, suspenseful, original novel in which she moves us into even deeper, sophisticated, psychological terrain."
