Daughters of the Revolution
Subtitle: a novel
By: Carolyn Cooke
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9780307594730
Subjects: Teenage boys; Preparatory schools; New England; School principals; Preparatory school students; Fiction; School integration; Social conflict; Teenage girls
Description: It's 1968. The prestigious but cash-strapped Goode School in the town of Cape Wilde is run by its aging, philandering headmaster, Goddard Byrd, known to both his friends and his enemies as God. With Cape Wilde engulfed by the social and political storms of integration, coeducation and the sexual revolution, Byrd has confidently promised coeducation "over my dead body." And then, through a clerical error, the Goode School admits its first female student: Carole Faust, a brilliant, intractable fifteen-year-old black girl.