- Title:
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The Rehearsal (MP3)
- Written by:
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Eleanor Catton
- Read by:
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Nicole Arumugam
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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9 hours 48 minutes
- MP3 size:
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431 MB
- Published:
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April 01 2015
- Available Date:
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April 01 2015
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781486286027
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
International bestselling author
Winner Betty Trask Award / Best First Novel 2009
Shortlisted The Guardian First Book Award 2009
Shortlisted Dylan Thomas Prize 2010
Longlisted Orange Prize (Women's Prize for Fiction) 2010
Shortlisted Prix Femina / Étranger 2011
'A wonderful debut by a truly exciting new writer.'
Kate Atkinson
Man Booker Prize-winning author Eleanor Catton's debut novel.
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.
'The Rehearsal is no rehearsal. It's a supremely confident piece of writing ... the clarity of its thought and language make it a definite contender for debut of the year.'
The Independent
'It represents a starburst of talent and the arrival of an author wholly different from anyone else writing today.'
Sunday Times
'This astonishing debut novel from young New Zealander Eleanor Catton is a cause for surprise and celebration: smart, playful and self-possessed, it has the glitter and mystery of the true literary original ... the prose is so arresting, the storytelling so seductive, that wherever the book falls open it's near-impossible to put down.'
The Guardian
'Timeframes overlap and collide in this ingenious ontological kaleidoscope of a debut, but the experimentalism – which demands that the reader keep all her wits about her – is tempered by a real knack for narrative and a cast of painfully familiar teenage characters who are all desperate to be as confident, cool, charismatic and funny as possible. These are qualities that the extraordinary Eleanor Catton has in spades.'
The Times
'As debuts go, this one is astral – as well as teasing, intelligent and knowing ... Catton anatomises brilliantly the psychology of youth, its sexual mores, it's posing pretentiousness, its worries, its bravado ... So much accomplishment carried so lightly.'
The Scotsman
'Brilliant ... What Catton does so strikingly, and in such honeyed prose, is to capture the essence of adolescents ... Catton has formidable talent.'
The Daily Mail