The Rehearsal, Eleanor Catton
The Rehearsal, Eleanor Catton
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The Rehearsal
A Novel

Author: Eleanor Catton

Narrator: Nicole Arumugum

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/07/2014


Synopsis

A teacher's affair with his underage student jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own power. Their nascent desires surprise even themselves as they find the practice room where they rehearse with their saxophone teacher is the safe place where they can test out their abilities to attract and manipulate. It seems their every act is a performance, every platform a stage.

But when the local drama school turns the story into their year-end show, the real world and the world of the theater are forced to meet. With the dates of the performances -- the musicians' and the acting students' -- approaching, the dramas, real and staged, begin to resemble each other, until they merge in a climax worthy of both life and art.

Author Bio

Eleanor Catton is the author of The Luminaries, winner of the Man Booker Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award. Her debut novel, The Rehearsal, won the Betty Trask Prize and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and Stonewall’s Writer of the Year Award. She was born in Canada and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Colin on December 11, 2012

I enjoy rating and seeing ratings on Goodreads immensely, however I can't help but notice certain patterns in the ratings of books which you, no doubt, have also noticed. Classics and non-genre-protected contemporary novels can either be skyrocketed by a large fan base, or pulled down by instant 1 a......more

Goodreads review by Justin on January 23, 2014

Eleanor Catton is a witch. I say this out of great respect, as I was taught to do by my Fake Auntie Barbara, who is also a witch. I know that Catton is a witch because: i) I do not care about sexuality in fiction. It's been done to death (primarily, I suspect, because it lets writers, who like to thi......more

Goodreads review by Ian on September 08, 2016

That One Perfect Kiss At the heart of this novel (written when Catton was 22) is an illicit male teacher, female pupil relationship. We hear little from the 31 year old teacher, so we can’t determine whether he is a latter-day Humbert Humbert. Catton is more interested in the context and the aftermat......more