Hummingbirds
A Novel
On Sale: 10/05/2010
Hummingbirds
A Novel
On Sale: 10/05/2010
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About the Book
"Those of us who love Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie will now have to make room next to it on our shelves for Joshua Gaylord's winning debut." —Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
"Hummingbirds positively glistens with erudition and insight. Whether writing about prep school girls or the adult men who walk among them, Gaylord's stunning writing elevates his subject matter with equal parts humanity and elegance." —Jonathan Tropper, author of This Is Where I Leave You
In the tradition of Francine Prose's Blue Angel, Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep, and Alan Bennett's The History Boys, Joshua Gaylord's Hummingbirds reveals the intertwining—and darkly surprising—relationships between secretive students and teachers at an all-girls prep school in New York City.
Critical Praise
“Provocative and well written.” — People StyleWatch
“[A] winning debut . . . Lush language . . . A very grown-up novel about adolescence and the folly of adults, by an impressive new voice in American fiction.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred)
“Gaylord has delivered a story that’s ripe with acute and wry observations on men and women, competition, sexuality, and secrets.” — Library Journal
“The complicated web of loyalties, attraction, competition and camaraderie [in HUMMINGBIRDS] provides much tension as things play out—but not in an expected way. . . . Gaylord’s tale of overeducated men and the teenage students who exhibit the finesse and understanding their teachers lack hits all the right notes.” — Publishers Weekly
“HUMMINGBIRDS is a sly, charming novel about the students at a Manhattan girls’ school and the adults who sometimes remember to teach them. Joshua Gaylord’s winning debut.” — Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England
“Hummingbirds positively glistens with erudition and insight. Whether writing about prep school girls or the adult men who walk among them, Gaylord’s stunning writing elevates his subject matter with equal parts humanity and elegance.” — Jonathan Tropper, author of This Is Where I Leave You
“Keenly plotted and psychologically acute, this novel thrums with deceptions great and small— what we don’t tell each other, and what we won’t admit to ourselves.” — Ed Park, author of Personal Days
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Product Details
- ISBN: 9780061769023
- ISBN 10: 0061769029
- Imprint: Harper Perennial
- On Sale: 10/05/2010
- Pages: 368
- List Price:18.50 CAD
- BISAC1 : FICTION / Family Life
- BISAC2 : FICTION / Contemporary Women
- BISAC3 : FICTION / Literary
- BISAC4 : FICTION / Coming of Age
