Сьюзен Чой — новинки

Сара и Дэвид изучают театральное мастерство в очень закрытой и очень элитной академии. Они молоды, влюблены и думают только об искусстве, но вскоре харизматичный преподаватель начинает вмешиваться в их отношения. А может быть, и манипулировать ими. Или нет? Сьюзен Чой конструирует свой роман как калейдоскоп, складывая из одних и тех же фактов совершенно разные картинки и заставляя читателя задуматься над одним простым вопросом: Как наша жизнь становится чужой историей? И кто имеет на нее право, кроме нас?

Сара и Дэвид изучают театральное мастерство в очень закрытой и очень элитной академии. Они молоды, влюблены и думают только об искусстве, но вскоре харизматичный преподаватель начинает вмешиваться в их отношения. А, может быть, и манипулировать ими. Или нет? Сьюзен Чой конструирует свой роман как калейдоскоп, складывая из одних и тех же фактов совершенно разные картинки и заставляя читателя задуматься над одним простым вопросом:Как наша жизнь становится чужой историей? И кто имеет на нее право, кроме нас?
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Сара и Дэвид изучают театральное мастерство в очень закрытой и очень элитной академии. Они молоды, влюблены и думают только об искусстве, но вскоре харизматичный преподаватель начинает вмешиваться в их отношения. А, может быть, и манипулировать ими. Или нет? Сьюзен Чой конструирует свой роман как калейдоскоп, складывая из одних и тех же фактов совершенно разные картинки и заставляя читателя задуматься над одним простым вопросом: Как наша жизнь становится чужой историей? И кто имеет на нее право, кроме нас?

In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving “Brotherhood of the Arts,” two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed—or untoyed with—by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley.

The outside world of family life and economic status, of academic pressure and of their future adult lives, fails to penetrate this school’s walls—until it does, in a shocking spiral of events that catapults the action forward in time and flips the premise upside-down. What the reader believes to have happened to David and Sarah and their friends is not entirely true—though it’s not false, either. It takes until the book’s stunning coda for the final piece of the puzzle to fall into place—revealing truths that will resonate long after the final sentence.

As captivating and tender as it is surprising, Trust Exercise will incite heated conversations about fiction and truth, and about friendships and loyalties, and will leave listeners with wiser understandings of the true capacities of adolescents and of the powers and responsibilities of adults.

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Pulitzer Finalist Susan Choi's narrative-upending novel about what happens when a first love between high school students is interrupted by the attentions of a charismatic teacher In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving “Brotherhood of the Arts,” two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed—or untoyed with—by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting teacher, Mr.…

In the heat of September, and the heady rush of starting her graduate degree, Regina Gottlieb is entranced by her seductive, controversial English professor, Nicholas Brodeur. Against all advice, she becomes embroiled in his world, only to betray him in a passionate love affair with the person closest to him.

Their romance destroys the equilibrium of all those around them, and threatens to capsize their lives, as Regina and her lover struggle to bridge the gap between duty and desire, obsession and self-preservation.

Only years later, when Regina by now a married mother and bestselling novelist living in Brooklyn crosses paths again with Nicholas, do we see the full impact of her first, devastating love.

My Education is a classic coming-of-age novel with a delicious twist one of the most intoxicating stories of erotic obsession fused with literary style to emerge in a long time.

With its propulsive drive, vividly realized characters, and profound observations about soul and society, Pulitzer Prize?finalist Susan Choi?s latest novel is as thrilling as it is lyrical, and confirms her place as one of the most important novelists chronicling the American experience. Intricately plotted and psychologically acute, A Person of Interest exposes the fault lines of paranoia and dread that have fractured American life and asks how far one man must go to escape his regrets. Professor Lee, an Asian-born mathematician near retirement age would seem the last person to attract the attention of FBI agents. Yet after a colleague becomes the latest victim of a serial bomber, Lee must endure the undermining power of suspicion and face the ghosts of his past.

Susan Choi's first novel, The Foreign Student, was published to remarkable critical acclaim. The New Yorker called it "an auspicious debut," and the Los Angeles Times touted it as "a novel of extraordinary sensibility and transforming strangeness," naming it one of the ten best books of the year. American Woman, this gifted writer's second book, is a novel of even greater scope and dramatic complexity, about a young Japanese-American radical caught in the militant underground of the mid-1970s.

When 25-year-old Jenny Shimada steps out of the Rhinecliff train station in New York's Hudson Valley, the last person she expects to see is Rob Frazer, a shadowy figure from her previous life. On the lam for an act of violence against the American government, Jenny agrees to take on the job of caring for three younger fugitives whom Frazer has spirited out of California. One of them, the granddaughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate in San Francisco, has become a national celebrity. Kidnapped by a homegrown revolutionary group, Pauline shocked America when she embraced her captors' ideology, denouncing family and class to enlist in their radical cell.

American Woman unfolds the story of Jenny and her charges -- Pauline, Juan, and Yvonne, the remains of the busted revolutionary cadre -- as they pursue their destinies from an old farmhouse in upstate New York back to California. Provocative, suspenseful, and often wickedly comic, the novel explores the psychology of the young radicals -- outsiders all -- as isolation and paranoia inevitably undermine their ideals. American Woman is a tour de force with chilling resonance for readers today.