McGowan, Heather. Schooling.Random House, Vintage. 314p. c2001. 0-375-71432-4. $13.00 SA After the death of her mother, Catrine Evan's father places her at Monstead, an English prep school north of London. Her father's glorious memories of the years he spent at that school are far from the hellish reality that Catrine experiences. Aside from loneliness and being the perpetual outsider (she is a Yank Yank steamship stoker vainly tries to climb the social ladder, then fails in attempt to avenge himself on society. [Am. Drama: O’Neill The Hairy Ape in Sobel, 339] See : Failure (jargon) yank ), she has encounters with the school bully, glue sniffing sniff v. sniffed, sniff·ing, sniffs v.intr. 1. a. To inhale a short, audible breath through the nose, as in smelling something. b. To sniffle. 2. , arson, and a schoolgirl crush on her chemistry teacher that goes beyond friendship. McGowan's stream-of-consciousness style makes it oftentimes of·ten·times also oft·times adv. Frequently; repeatedly. Adv. 1. oftentimes - many times at short intervals; "we often met over a cup of coffee" frequently, oft, often, ofttimes difficult to determine what has been said as opposed to what has been thought. The style is a nice change, however, from the usual linear narrations and is appropriate to the story line as it reflects the confusion that the protagonist is feeling and experiencing. Debra Mitts Smith, PhD Student, GSLIS GSLIS Graduate School of Library and Information Science , Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champain |
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