- Title:
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New Boy: Othello Retold (MP3)
- Series:
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Hogarth Shakespeare
- Written by:
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Tracy Chevalier
- Read by:
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Prentice Onayemi
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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5 hours 26 minutes
- MP3 size:
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236 MB
- Published:
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May 04 2017
- Available Date:
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May 04 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489392022
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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'Chevalier’s modern interpretation of Othello deftly explores race relations in the schoolyard in 1970s suburban Washington, and captures how it feels to be an outside.'
iMagazine
One of our most successful historical novelists transplants the tragedy of Othello to a playground in 1970s Washington D.C.
'O felt her presence behind him like a fire at his back.'
Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat’s son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day – so he’s lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can’t stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and its key players – teachers and pupils alike – will never be the same again.
The tragedy of Othello is transposed to a 1970s suburban Washington schoolyard, where kids fall in and out of love with each other before lunchtime, and practise a casual racism picked up from their parents and teachers. Watching over the shoulders of four 11-year-olds – Osei, Dee, Ian and his reluctant ‘girlfriend’ Mimi – Tracy Chevalier's powerful drama of friends torn apart by jealousy, bullying and betrayal will leave you reeling.