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The Gifted School

✍ Scribed by Baker;Taylor Axis 360.;Holsinger, Bruce


Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2019
Tongue
en-US
Weight
274 KB
Category
Fiction
City
Riverhead Books, 2019.
ISBN
0525534962

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✦ Synopsis


"The summer read that predicted the college-admissions scandal." -The Wall Street Journal******


"[An] addictive...deeply pleasurable read." - Meg Wolitzer


Smart and juicy, a compulsively readable novel about a previously happy group of friends and parents that is nearly destroyed by their own competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted children opens in the community**
This deliciously sharp novel captures the relentless ambitions and fears that animate parents and their children in modern America, exploring the conflicts between achievement and potential, talent and privilege.
Set in the fictional town of Crystal, Colorado, The Gifted School is a keenly entertaining novel that observes the drama within a community of friends and parents as good intentions and high ambitions collide in a pile-up with long-held secrets and lies. Seen through the lens of four families who've been a part of...

✦ Subjects


Fiction


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