Poor George
By: Paula Fox ; introduction by Jonathan Lethem.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Juvenile delinquents -- Fiction; Tutors and tutoring -- Fiction; Married people -- Fiction; Suburban life -- Fiction; Teenage boys -- Fiction; Teachers -- Fiction; Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Gives us George Mecklin, a restless, soft-spoken teacher at a private school in Manhattan. Depressed by his life of vague moral purpose, George discovers a local adolescent named Ernest breaking into his house. Rather than hand the boy over to the police, as his nagging wife insists, George decides to tutor him. His life consequently implodes."--P. [4] of cover.