Edinburgh: A Novel
Twelve-year-old Fee is a gifted Korean-American soprano in a boys' choir in Maine whose choir director reveals himself to be a serial pedophile. Fee and his friends are forced to bear grief, shame, and pain that endure long after the director is imprisoned. Fee survives even as his friends do...
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Twelve-year-old Fee is a gifted Korean-American soprano in a boys' choir in Maine whose choir director reveals himself to be a serial pedophile. Fee and his friends are forced to bear grief, shame, and pain that endure long after the director is imprisoned. Fee survives even as his friends do not, but a deep-seated horror and dread accompany him through his self-destructive college days and after, until the day he meets a beautiful young student named Warden and is forced to confront the demons of his brutal past.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312305031 (0312305036)
ASIN: 0312305036
Publish date: 2002-11-09
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
I still have yet to read another book that has such a mastery over language than this one. Beyond the blatant cruel realities there is just so much here to savour. Chee's ability to take incredibly painful and difficult subject matters that which should ultimately repel and perplex readers and to in...
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