| Boy in the Water Contributor(s): Dobyns, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 014218182X ISBN-13: 9780142181829 Publisher: Blue Rider Press OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - General - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2015017236 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.3" W x 8" (1.10 lbs) 496 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - New Hampshire |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Another bucolic fall in northern New Hampshire, and the semester is under way at Bishop's Hill Academy. But this year the start of school has been less than tranquil. The new headmaster, Jim Hawthorne, has liberal ideas that the staff find far from welcome; eloquent as he is on the subject of honor, rumor has it he's taken this job to escape his past. And Hawthorne isn't the only uneasy newcomer. There's Jessica Weaver, a stripper at fifteen, and Frank LeBrun, a replacement cook who's a bit too quick with a dirty joke. All three have secrets to conceal, memories to suppress. Serene on the surface, the ivy-clad, tree-lined campus gives few clues to the school's history of special privileges, petty corruptions, and hidden allegiances. And as winter closes in, students, teachers, and staff get an education in savagery and murder. With his uncanny awareness of the intricacies of human nature, the acclaimed author of The Church of Dead Girls once again probes the daily life of an ordinary community to reveal the depths of good and evil. |