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Alone In The Classroom (2011)

by Elizabeth Hay(Favorite Author)

3.26 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0771037945 (ISBN13: 9780771037948)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

McClelland & Stewart

review 1: Not up to the calibre of either a Student of Weather or her great book: Late Nights on Air. The first 40% of the book was set in a small, rural school in Jewel, SK in the 1930s and a compelling read of the relationships between students and teachers. Two young girls die. Then it moved into later generations seeking answers to the incomplete tales started. This is where the story failed to find its way. It dipsy-doodled its way to an unsatisfactory conclusion. A great start and an unsatisfactory ending. I won't recommend it.
review 2: a young woman teaching at 19 in a small school in Jewel, Saskatchewan where a teacher reprimands a brilliant young girl for cheating and assaults her. She goes home to her father’s embarrassment, is locked in her room and dies s... moreeveral days later when the house burns to the ground. The teacher returns to the Ottawa Valley and the story continues to be told by the teachers niece, moving back and forward from present to previous years and events. Extremely intricate, with brilliant descriptions of family relationships and aging. A frustrating but seductive novel. less

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