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The Gifted School

by Bruce Holsinger
$8.90
The Gifted School
The Gifted School

Intense drama amid elite education's competitive frenzy.

If you got hooked on the delicious scandals of "Big Little Lies," "The Gifted School" is calling your name. It dives into a community shaken by ambition, where friendships strain under the weight of competition. Bruce Holsinger captures the lengths to which parents will go for their children's success, making you question just where the line between love and obsession lies.

  • Colorado Book Award for General Fiction (2020)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Gifted School

by Bruce Holsinger
$8.90
ISBN: 9781472271518
Authors: Bruce Holsinger
Publisher: Headline Review
Date of Publication: 2020-06-30
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Drama, Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.72
(rated by 38216 readers)

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Smart and juicy, a compulsively readable novel about a group of friends and families that is nearly destroyed by their own competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted children opens in the community. This deliciously sharp novel captures the relentless ambitions and fears that animate parents and their children in modern America, exploring the conflicts between achievement and potential, talent and privilege. Set in the fictional town of Crystal, Colorado, The Gifted School is a keenly entertaining novel that observes the drama within a community of friends and parents as good intentions and high ambitions collide in a pile-up with long-held secrets and lies. Seen through the lens of four families who've been a part of one another's lives since their kids were born over a decade ago, the story reveals not only the lengths that some adults are willing to go to get ahead, but the effect on the group's children, sibling relationships, marriages, and careers, as simmering resentments come to a boil and long-buried, explosive secrets surface and detonate. It's a humorous, keenly observed, timely take on ambitious parents, willful kids, and the pursuit of prestige, no matter the cost.
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This is a well-read book, which means that the previous owner probably really enjoyed it! The cover and pages may include moderate foxing and annotations, but the text is not obscured and still readable. Moderate cosmetic defects and minor water damage may be present on the edges of the book. For paperbacks, there may be multiple crease marks on the spine.

*Books may be missing bundle media (e.g. CD, e-book code), if included.

 

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Intense drama amid elite education's competitive frenzy.

If you got hooked on the delicious scandals of "Big Little Lies," "The Gifted School" is calling your name. It dives into a community shaken by ambition, where friendships strain under the weight of competition. Bruce Holsinger captures the lengths to which parents will go for their children's success, making you question just where the line between love and obsession lies.

  • Colorado Book Award for General Fiction (2020)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.