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The rehearsal /

Catton, Eleanor, 1985-

The rehearsal / by Eleanor Catton. - Wellington [N.Z.] : Victoria University Press, 2008. - 316 pages ; 21 cm.

Novel. "The acclaimed first novel by the author of The Luminaries" -- cover. -"Best first book winner of the NZSA Hubert Church Award at the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards ; 2009 Betty Trask Award Winner from UK Society of Authors" -- back cover. -A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. The sudden and total publicity seems to turn every act into a performance, and every platform into a stage. But when the local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a show, the real world and the world of the theatre are forced to meet, and soon the boundaries between private and public begin to dissolve ...

A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. The sudden and total publicity seems to turn every act into a performance, and every platform into a stage. But when the local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a show, the real world and the world of the theatre are forced to meet, and soon the boundaries between private and public begin to dissolve.

Finalist in the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Montana Hubert Church Best First Book of Fiction Award 2009 Winner. Montana New Zealand Book Awards, NZSA Best First Book Award for Fiction, 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2009: NHSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction.

9780864735812 (pbk.) 0864735812 (pbk.)


Montana New Zealand Book Awards winners.


Actors--Fiction.
Acting--Fiction.
Teenage girls--New Zealand--Fiction.
New Zealand fiction--21st century.
Award winners.


New Zealand--21st century.--Fiction


New Zealand fiction--21st century.
General fiction.

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