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Lucinda Rosenfeld
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Hardcover. A satirical novel about a mother whose life spirals out of control when she's forced to rethink her bleeding heart liberal ideals Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 219 x 34. Weight in Grams: 464.
For idealistic forty-something Karen Kipple, it isn't enough that she works full-time in the non-profit sector, aiding an organization that helps hungry children from disadvantaged homes. She's also determined to live her personal life in accordance with her ideals. This means sending her daughter, Ruby, to an integrated public school in their Brooklyn neighborhood. But when a troubled student from a nearby housing project begins bullying children in Ruby's class, the distant social and economic issues Karen has always claimed to care about so passionately feel uncomfortably close to home. As the situation at school escalates, Karen ... Read more
For idealistic forty-something Karen Kipple, it isn't enough that she works full-time in the non-profit sector, aiding an organization that helps hungry children from disadvantaged homes. She's also determined to live her personal life in accordance with her ideals. This means sending her daughter, Ruby, to an integrated public school in their Brooklyn neighborhood. But when a troubled student from a nearby housing project begins bullying children in Ruby's class, the distant social and economic issues Karen has always claimed to care about so passionately feel uncomfortably close to home. As the situation at school escalates, Karen ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
464g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780316265416
SKU
V9780316265416
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About Lucinda Rosenfeld
Lucinda Rosenfeld is the author of the novels The Pretty One, What She Saw..., Why She Went Home, and I'm So Happy For You. Her fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Creative Non-Fiction, Slate.com, Glamour, and other magazines. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two daughters.
Reviews for Class
Rosenfeld's attack on upper-middle-class pieties is unerring in its aim.
New Yorker A genuinely enjoyable story about a woman who is both preposterous and recognizable and a plotline that is at once absurd and possibly happening in your own neighbourhood at this very moment.
The Globe and Mail This satirical novel will have you thinking about your own values ... Read more
New Yorker A genuinely enjoyable story about a woman who is both preposterous and recognizable and a plotline that is at once absurd and possibly happening in your own neighbourhood at this very moment.
The Globe and Mail This satirical novel will have you thinking about your own values ... Read more