School for love
By: by Olivia Manning ; introduction by Jane Smiley.
Contributors: Smiley, Jane.
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781590173039
Subjects: Orphans -- Fiction; Jewish-Arab relations -- History -- 1917-1948 -- Fiction; Jerusalem -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction; Jerusalem -- Ethnic relations -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Felix Latimer, a recently orphaned teenager, arrives in Jerusalem from Baghdad, biding time until he can secure passage to England. Adrift and deeply lonely, Felix has no choice but to room in a boardinghouse run by Miss Bohun, a relative he has never met. Miss Bohun is a holy terror, a cheerless miser who proclaims the ideals of a fundamentalist group known as the Ever-Readies{u2014}joy, charity, and love{u2014}even as she makes life a misery for her boarders. Then Mrs. Ellis, a fascinating young widow, moves into the house and disrupts its dreary routine for good.