The Rehearsal

by Eleanor Catton

4 of 5 stars 1 rating • 1 review • 2 shelved
Book cover for The Rehearsal
Shelve It

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

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. "The Rehearsal" is an exhilarating and provocative novel about the unsimple mess of human desire, at once a tender evocation of its young protagonists and a shrewd expose of emotional compromise.
  • ISBN10 1847081533
  • ISBN13 9781847081537
  • Publish Date 2 July 2009 (first published 7 April 2008)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Granta Books
  • Format eBook
  • Language English