Hummingbirds - (P.S.) by Joshua Gaylord (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><P>"Those of us who love Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie will now have to make room next to it on our shelves for Joshua Gaylord's winning debut." Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England<P>"Hummingbirds positively glistens with erudition and insight. Whether writing about prep school girls or the adult men who walk among them, Gaylord's stunning writing elevates his subject matter with equal parts humanity and elegance." Jonathan Tropper, author of This Is Where I Leave You<P>In the tradition of Francine Prose's Blue Angel, Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep, and Alan Bennett's The History Boys, Joshua Gaylord's Hummingbirds reveals the intertwining and darkly surprising relationships between secretive students and teachers at an all-girls prep school in New York City. "<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Those of us who love Muriel Spark's <em>The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie</em> will now have to make room next to it on our shelves for Joshua Gaylord's winning debut. --Brock Clarke, author of <em>An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England</em></p><p><em>Hummingbirds</em> positively glistens with erudition and insight. Whether writing about prep school girls or the adult men who walk among them, Gaylord's stunning writing elevates his subject matter with equal parts humanity and elegance. --Jonathan Tropper, author of <em>This Is Where I Leave You</em></p><p>In the tradition of Francine Prose's <em>Blue Angel</em>, Curtis Sittenfeld's <em>Prep, </em> and Alan Bennett's <em>The History Boys</em>, Joshua Gaylord's <em>Hummingbirds</em> reveals the intertwining--and darkly surprising--relationships between secretive students and teachers at an all-girls prep school in New York City. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p><em>Hummingbirds</em> is a wonderfully compelling novel about the intertwining and darkly surprising relationships at the elite Carmine-Casey School for Girls on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where the rivalries and secrets of teachers and students intersect and eventually collide.</p><p>In the world of students, popular Dixie Doyle battles to wrest attention away from Liz Warren, who spends her time writing and directing plays based on the <em>Oresteia</em>. In the world of teachers, Leo Binhammer must now share his territory with Ted Hughes, the new English teacher who threatens Binhammer's status as sole owner of the girls' hearts. Seasons change and tensions mount as the students, longing for entry into the adult world, toy with their premature powers of flirtation. The deceptive innocence of adolescence becomes a trap into which flailing teachers fall, as the line between maturity and youth begins to blur.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Gaylord has delivered a story that's ripe with acute and wry observations on men and women, competition, sexuality, and secrets."--<em>Library Journal</em><br><br>"The complicated web of loyalties, attraction, competition and camaraderie [in HUMMINGBIRDS] provides much tension as things play out--but not in an expected way. . . . Gaylord's tale of overeducated men and the teenage students who exhibit the finesse and understanding their teachers lack hits all the right notes."--<em>Publishers Weekly</em><br><br>"Keenly plotted and psychologically acute, this novel thrums with deceptions great and small-- what we don't tell each other, and what we won't admit to ourselves."--Ed Park, author of Personal Days<br><br>"[A] winning debut . . . Lush language . . . A very grown-up novel about adolescence and the folly of adults, by an impressive new voice in American fiction."--Kirkus Reviews (starred)<br><br>"Hummingbirds positively glistens with erudition and insight. Whether writing about prep school girls or the adult men who walk among them, Gaylord's stunning writing elevates his subject matter with equal parts humanity and elegance."--Jonathan Tropper, author of This Is Where I Leave You<br><br>"HUMMINGBIRDS is a sly, charming novel about the students at a Manhattan girls' school and the adults who sometimes remember to teach them. Joshua Gaylord's winning debut."--Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England<br><br>"Provocative and well written."--People StyleWatch<br>
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