The Yoga Teacher by Alexandra Gray

The Yoga Teacher by Alexandra Gray

Dissatisfied with her job as a pharmaceutical rep and struggling with the decline of her long-term relationship, Grace, a well-heeled Londoner, uses yoga class to unwind, reflect, and momentarily transcend her earthly dilemmas. While pitching her company’s latest antidepressant to the disarming Dr. James, she is inspired by his plan to study Eastern medicine in Vietnam and decides to quit her job to become a yoga teacher. After studying at the eccentric White Lotus Foundation in California, Grace returns to London, ready for her new life.  But nothing could have prepared her for the motley crew of students she amasses--from the octogenarian industrialist desperate for distraction, the supermodel who indulges yogic aspirations when she tires of kabbalah, to the American film star who uses yoga classes to conceal a scandalous affair. Overwhelmed, Grace soon finds herself relying on her bi-continental correspondence with Dr. James for solace and inspiration, his words hovering above her London life like a sweet promise. With an eye for the absurdity in every encounter, Alexandra Gray gently skewers our society’s preference for a quick-fix nirvana in this chronicle of one woman’s quest for love and meaning in a world numbed by materialism and psychotropic drugs.

Jane Ford is a Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University. She is a specialist in the literature and culture of the fin de siü¾Ž†”¼cle and she is currently completing a monograph which examines the complex network of metaphors that emerged around late-nineteenth-century conceptions of economic self-interest and exploitation. She is co-editor of Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siü¾Ž†”¼cle: Libidinal Lives (Routledge, 2016) and has published essays on Vernon Lee, Lucas Malet and Bertram Mitford.

Alexandra Gray is a Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth. Alexandra's research interests include the New Woman, fin-de-siü¾Ž†”¼cle literature and culture, art history and criticism and medical and psychiatric history. She has recently published her first monograph, Self-Harm in New Woman Writing (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), and has also written on the work of Irish New Woman, George Egerton, hyperhidrosis in fiction, and the orphan figure in Victorian literature and culture. She is a co-editor of 'The Gateless Barrier, ' an online impact project for the purposes of feminist literary recovery, featuring research on Lucas Malet's life and work.

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ISBN 13	9780802170552
ISBN 10	0802170552
Title	The Yoga Teacher
Author	Alexandra Gray
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Grove Press, Black Cat
Year published	2008-09-25
Number of pages	256
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