num_pages: 272
description: When Benjamin Braddock graduates from a small Eastern college and moves home to his parents' house, everyone wants to know what he's going to do with his life. Embittered by the emptiness of his college education and indifferent to his grim prospects—grad school? a career in plastics?—Benjamin falls haplessly into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, the relentlessly seductive wife of his father's business partner. It's only when beautiful coed Elaine Robinson comes home to visit her parents that Benjamin, now smitten, thinks he might have found some kind of direction in his life. Unfortunately for Benjamin, Mrs. Robinson plays the role of protective mother as well as she does the one of mistress. A wondrously fierce and absurd battle of wills ensues, with love and idealism triumphing over the forces of corruption and conformity.
language: English
title: The Graduate
titlecomplete: The Graduate (The Graduate, #1)
genres: 20th Century, Coming Of Age, American, Novels, Media Tie In, Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 10459
series: The Graduate
publisher: Washington Square Press