- Scandals, Teenage girls, Sex scandals in fiction, Social life and customs
At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape.
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- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Anita Shreve
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 330
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Co.
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781600246180
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Anita Shreve grew up in Dedham, Massachusetts (just outside Boston), the eldest of three daughters. Early literary influences include having read Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton when she was a junior in high school (a short novel she still claims as one of her favorites) and everything Eugene O'Neill ever wrote while she was a senior (to which she attributes a somewhat dark streak in her own work). After graduating from Tufts University, she taught high school for a number of years in and around Boston. In the middle of her last year, she quit (something that, as a parent, she finds appalling now) to start writing. "I had this panicky sensation that it was now or never." Joking that she could w
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