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You Deserve Nothing
Contributor(s): Maksik, Alexander (Author)
ISBN: 1609450485     ISBN-13: 9781609450489
Publisher: Europa Editions
OUR PRICE:   $15.30  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.3" W x 8.2" (0.90 lbs) 336 pages
 
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Set in Paris, at an international high school catering to the sons and daughters of wealthy families, You Deserve Nothing is a gripping story of power, idealism, and morality.

William Silver is a talented and charismatic young teacher whose unconventional methods raise eyebrows among his colleagues and superiors. His students, however, are devoted to him. His teaching of Camus, Faulkner, Sartre, Keats and other kindred souls breathe life into their sense of social justice and their capacities for philosophical and ethical thought. But unbeknownst to his adoring pupils, Silver proves incapable of living up to the ideals he encourages in others. Emotionally scarred by failures in his personal life and driven to distraction by the City of Light's overpowering carnality and beauty, Silver succumbs to a temptation that will change the course of his life. His fall will render him a criminal in the eyes of some, and all too human in the eyes of others.

In Maksik's stylish prose, Paris is sensual, dazzling and dangerously seductive. It serves as a fitting backdrop for a dramatic tale about the tension between desire and action, and about the complex relationship that exists between our public and private selves.