The English teacher
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Lily King.
Publisher: RB Large Print
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Prince Frederick, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: English teachers -- Fiction; Remarried people -- Fiction; Stepfamilies -- Fiction; Large type books; Islands -- Fiction; New England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Fifteen years ago Vida Avery arrived alone and pregnant at elite Fayer Academy. By living on campus, on an island off the New England coast, Vida has cocooned herself and her son, Peter, from the outside world and from an inside secret. For years she has lived largely through the books she teaches, but when she accepts the impulsive marriage proposal of ardent widower Tom Belou, the prescribed life Vida has constructed is swiftly dismantled. As Vida begins teaching her signature book, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, a tale of an ostracized woman and social injustice, its themes begin to echo eerily in her own life and Peter sees that the mother he perceived as indomitable is collapsing and it is up to him to help.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005.