Hummingbirds
A Academic, Audiobook, Fiction book. Of Dixie Doyle it is said that she could convince grown men of anything. While she is...
"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 YouIn 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.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 368 pages
- ISBN: 9780061769023 / 61769029
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Of Dixie Doyle it is said that she could convince grown men of anything. While she is only a mediocre student and a wholly untalented tennis player, she possesses a quality of performed girlishness that turns sex into a ragged paradox for men beyond the age of thirty. She speaks with the hint of a babyish lisp, the pink end of her tongue frequently peeking out from between her teeth, but her eyes are implacable fields of gray that at any moment could conceal everything you imagine - or nothing at all. She might be an X-ray registering the skeleton of... It was impossible to tell how she felt. When she tried to look inside of herself, all she saw were tangled things shifting in and out of focus. Joshua Gaylord, Hummingbirds //
This debut novel takes place in the backdrop of an elite girls' day school in Manhattan, the Carmine-Casey School for Girls. Here we find a heated and flurrying mixture of adolescent girls, the men and women who teach them, and the occasional visitors from the local boys school.As in every school, there are stars. The star students... Tenderly nuanced and bittersweet, this debut novel by Joshua Gaylord reminded me very much of John Cheever and F.Scott Fitzgerald in its tone and writing style (in fact, there are quite a few nods to The Great Gatsby in the book, making me think that the author was deliberately paying homage to the great authors whose style he echoes).... horny men
