Daughters of the Revolution Contributor(s): Cooke, Carolyn (Author) |
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ISBN: 030774146X ISBN-13: 9780307741462 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 208 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1960's - Cultural Region - New England - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In 1968, a clerical mistake threatens the prestigious but cash-strapped Goode School in the small New England town of Cape Wilde. After a century of all-male, old-boy education, the school accidentally admits its first female student: Carole Faust, a brilliant, outspoken, fifteen-year-old black girl whose arrival will have both an immediate and long-term effect on the prep school and everyone in its orbit. There's the school's philandering headmaster, Goddard "God" Byrd, who had promised co-education "over his dead body" and who finds his syllabi full of dead white males and patriarchal tradition constantly challenged; there's EV, the daughter of God's widowed mistress who watches Carole's actions as she grows older with wide eyes and admiration; and, finally, there's Carole herself, who bears the singular challenge of being the First Girl in a world that's not quite ready to embrace her. |