- New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Teachers, fiction, Fiction, psychological
"2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher.
New York Times bestsellerNew York Times reviewedTeachers, fictionFiction, psychologicalFiction, womenTeenage girlsFictionHigh schoolsStudentsTeachersTeacher-student relationshipsSex crimes
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Grave, earnest, overwhelming and spare.
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- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
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About the book
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate, HarperAudio, HarperCollins Espanol
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780063063952
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