Name: The Finishing School: A Novel (in English)
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Author: Joanna Goodman
ISBN: 9780062465580

portada The Finishing School: A Novel (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Joanna Goodman

Publisher

Harper Paperbacks

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.5 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.28 kg.

ISBN13

9780062465580

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Finishing School: A Novel (in English)"

In this suspenseful, provocative novel of friendship, secrets, and deceit, a successful writer returns to her elite Swiss boarding school to get to the bottom of a tragic accident that took place while she was a student twenty years earlier.How far would you go to uncover the truth?One spring night in 1998 the beautiful Cressida Strauss plunges from a fourth-floor balcony at the Lycée Internationale Suisse with catastrophic consequences. Loath to draw negative publicity to the school, a bastion of European wealth and glamour, officials quickly dismiss the incident as an accident, but questions remain: Was it a suicide attempt? Or was Cressida pushed? It was no secret that she had a selfish streak and had earned as many enemies as allies in her tenure at the school. For her best friend, scholarship student Kersti Kuusk, the lingering questions surrounding Cressida's fall continue to nag long after she leaves the Lycée.Kersti marries and becomes a bestselling writer, but never stops wondering about Cressida's obsession with the Helvetian Society--a secret club banned years before their arrival at the school--and a pair of its members who were expelled. When Kersti is invited as a guest to the Lycée's 100th Anniversary, she begins probing the cover-up, unearthing a frightening underbelly of lies and abuse at the prestigious establishment. And in one portentous moment, Kersti makes a decision that will connect her to Cressida forever and raise the stakes dangerously high in her own desire to solve the mystery and redeem her past.An unputdownable read as clever as it is compelling, The Finishing School offers a riveting glimpse into a privileged, rarefied world in which nothing is as it appears.

Joanna Goodman

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Nacida en Montreal el 21 de mayo de 1969, Joanna Goodman es autora de cinco novelas, algunas de ellas éxitos de venta. Reside en Toronto con su marido e hijos. Es dueña de la compañía de ropa Au Lit Fine Linens.

Sus textos han aparecido en publicaciones como The Fiddlehead o The New Quarterly. Su narrativa bebe de autores como Margaret Atwood, Meg Wolitzer, John Irving, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alice Munro o Jonathan Franzen.

Su primera obra traducida al español fue El hogar de niñas indeseadas, una novela inspirada en hechos reales que sigue los pasos de Maggie y Elodie, una madre y una hija separadas por sus circunstancias. También se han publicado en nuestro idioma El internado suizo y La hija olvidada.

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