Boy in the water
Subtitle: a novel
By: Stephen Dobyns
Publisher: Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781101991794; 9780142181829
Subjects: Preparatory schools; Fiction; Good and evil; Romans, nouvelles
Description: Another bucolic fall in northern New Hampshire, and the semester is under way at Bishop's Hill Academy. But this year the start of school has been less than tranquil. The new headmaster, Jim Hawthorne, has liberal ideas that the staff find far from welcome;. eloquent as he is on the subject of honor, rumor has it he's taken this job to escape his past. And Hawthorne isn't the only uneasy newcomer. There's Jessica Weaver, a stripper at fifteen, and Frank LeBrun, a replacement cook who's a bit too quick with a dirty joke. All three have secrets to conceal, memories to suppress. Serene on the surface, the ivy-clad, tree-lined campus gives few clues to the school's history of special privileges, petty corruptions, and hidden allegiances. And as winter closes in, students, teachers, and staff get an education in savagery and murder. With his uncanny awareness of the intricacies of human nature, the acclaimed author of The Church of Dead Girls From the Trade Paperback edition.