Daughters of the Revolution

Name: Daughters of the Revolution
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ISBN: 9780307594730

ISBN-10: 0307594734

ISBN-13: 9780307594730

Edition: 2011

Authors: Carolyn Cooke

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From the O. Henry Award#x13;winning author of the story collection The Bostons-a New York TimesNotable Book, Los Angeles TimesBook of the Year, and winner of the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers-an exquisite first novel set at a disintegrating New England prep school. It#x19;s 1968. The prestigious but cash-strapped Goode School in the town of Cape Wilde is run by its aging, philandering headmaster, Goddard Byrd, known to both his friends and enemies as God. With Cape Wilde engulfed by the social and political storms of integration, coeducation, and the sexual revolution, God has confidently promised coeducation #x1C;over my dead body.#x1D; And then, through a clerical error, the…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/7/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

CAROLYN COOKE's stories have been featured in The Best American Short Stories and twice in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. A graduate of Columbia University's MFA program, Cooke has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Yaddo. Born in Maine and raised in Boston, she has been a staff writer for Penthouse and reviewed fiction for The Nation. She lives in northern California with her husband and two children.