The ropewalk
By: John Knauf
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9781462052738
Subjects: Historians; Fiction; Boarding schools
Description: Set in the late seventies, The Ropewalk is about the clash between ideals and unexpected realities. Egan Drummond, a twice-divorced history teacher, takes a job at a remote boarding school on the coast of Maine to escape mainstream society and pursue a long-cherished dream to complete a research project and make a name for himself as an historian.