School's Out

Name: School's Out
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ISBN: 9780143038115

ISBN-10: 0143038117

ISBN-13: 9780143038115

Edition: 2007

Authors: Christophe Dufosse, Shaun Whiteside

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A vertiginous black comedy by one of Frances most exciting new novelists Winner of Frances most prestigious prize for a first novel, Schools Outis a gripping re- imagining of Lord of the Flies at once scarier and funnier than its prototype. When high school teacher ric Capadis is found dead, an apparent suicide, his friend Pierre Hoffman takes over his class. The students in 9F are well behaved yet oddly menacingHoffmans colleagues warn him to watch out for them. But its 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. Schools Outis a triumph of nihilism and surreal wit.

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/29/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.440

A former schoolteacher, Christophe Dufosse lives in Paris. School's Out is his first novel. Winner of the Prix du Premier Roman, it is being translated into ten languages.

Shaun Whiteside's translations include Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy and Musil's The Confessions of Young Tï¿½rless for Penguin Classics.