Posh by Lucy Jackson

Posh by Lucy Jackson

Kathryn "Lazy" Hoffman is the headmistress of the Griffin School, in the midst of an affair she almost can't remember why she started - her marriage, after all, is a good one. Lazy ministers to students, but her cross to bear is the parents: from the imperious head of the board of trustees to the more average thorns who just can't understand why their little darlings aren't fast-tracked to Harvard. There is one student who's clearly on his way to Cambridge: Michael Avery, smart and driven, but so troubled it's hard for him to get through life as a senior in high school. That drill includes his girlfriend Julianne Coopersmlth, a sweetly compassionate child of divorce who happily wears hand-me-down designer clothes from her best friend, and adores Michael even in the face of his neediness and meltdowns. After all, she's all he has - he certainly doesn't have his mother, Susan, who finds it easier to love her Chinese Crested Hairless than her own brilliant and tortured son. Fast-paced, gently satirical, yet deeply felt, "Posh" is a surprisingly poignant and knowing novel distinguished by its spare and elegant prose.

Lucy Jackson (a pseudonym) is an acclaimed short story writer and novelist. Her last novel was a New York Times Notable Book. Jackson's fiction has appeared in The NewYorker, Best American Short Stories and many other magazines and anthologies. She lives in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780312363895
ISBN 10	0312363893
Title	Posh
Author	Lucy Jackson
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	St Martin's Press
Year published	2007-01-09
Number of pages	256
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