The Hive: Thorndike Core
Autor Gill Hornbyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 feb 2014
It's the start of another school year at St. Ambrose. While the children are busy in the classroom, their mothers are learning sharper lessons. Lessons in friendship. Lessons in betrayal. Lessons in the laws of community, the transience of power...and how to get invited to lunch.
Beatrice -- undisputed queen bee. Ruler, by Divine Right, of all school fundraising, this year, last year, and, surely, for many to come.
Heather -- desperate to volunteer, desperate to be noticed, desperate to belong.
Georgie -- desperate for a cigarette.
And Rachel -- watching them all, keeping her distance. But soon to discover taht the line between amused observer and miserable outcast is a thin one.
THE HIVE is a wickedly funny and brilliantly observed story about female friendship, power plays, and the joys and perils (well, mainly perils) of trying to do one's part.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781410466198
ISBN-10: 1410466191
Pagini: 515
Dimensiuni: 140 x 228 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Thorndike Press
Seria Thorndike Core
ISBN-10: 1410466191
Pagini: 515
Dimensiuni: 140 x 228 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Thorndike Press
Seria Thorndike Core
Notă biografică
Gill
Hornby
is
a
writer
and
journalist.
She
lives
with
her
husband,
Robert
Harris,
and
their
four
children,
in
Kintbury,
Berkshire
(UK).The
Hiveis
her
first
novel.
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Welcome to St Ambrose Primary School. A world of friendships, fights and feuding. And that's just the mothers...
Welcome to St Ambrose Primary School. A world of friendships, fights and feuding. And that's just the mothers...
Recenzii
"THE
HIVE
isMean
Girlsfor
moms.
It
begins
as
a
tart
vivisection
of
mother
culture:
the
invidious
comparisons,
the
one-upping,
the
compliments
that
insult.
Yet
in
the
tradition
of
the
best
satire,
which
engenders
a
fondness
for
its
target
even
as
it
skewers,
THE
HIVE
made
me
fall
in
love
with
these
women,
each
flawed
and
interesting,
trying
in
her
own
way
to
be
herself.
You
won't
be
able
to
resist
picking
a
favorite,
or
casting
the
book
from
your
own
circle
of
friends
(or
even
your
book
club).
Escape
to
someone
else's
social
snarls
for
a
few
hours,
and
enjoy
this
brilliantly
witty,
wonderfully
warm
serving
of
mama
drama."—Lydia
Netzer,
author
ofNew
York
TimesNotable
Book
of
the
YearShine
Shine
Shine
"Clever and whitty...Anyone who has ever found themselves picked last for games or not invited for lunch will shudder with recognition."—Sunday Times(London)
"The Hivemaintains a healthy dose of humor within the mothers' characters. The novelist's British impersonations of the characters are hilarious ...The Hiveis a refreshing read because the Brits have perfectly constructed sentences, so enviably precise...The Hiveis a fun and witty read, one that everyone can relate to. As life evolves, we naturally evaluate our relationships and our contributions to them. Hornby gives us yet another fictional experience of how our relationships affect us, and how we can survive them." -The Aspen Times
"With a wicked eye and a giant heart, Gill Hornby weaves a lively and hilarious tale that's pure fun. If you lovedBridget Jones's Diaryand you have a child in school,The Hiveis the book for you." --Maria Semple, author ofWhere'd You Go, Bernadette
"The familiar notion that a group of women behaves like a hive is developed here into an enjoyable acerbic social commentary on mean girls of all ages, lightened by touches of hen lit." -Library Journal(starred review)
Proponents of career-centered feminism,such as Leslie Bennetts, often stress the financial and other dangers of leaving the workplace. What happens to your negotiating abilities? Do political antennae grow dull? For that answer, look no further than Gill Hornby (who, for the record, has "absolutely no view" on how other women should live) and yet who has, after "a good 16, 17 years of not going out there," produced a sophisticated commercial novel about what she knows that is deeply plugged in to our zeitgeist. -The Daily Beast
"Hornby's combining of 'the sticky stuff' and the daily ups and downs is marvelously conveyed - altogether delish." -The Spectator
"Clever and whitty...Anyone who has ever found themselves picked last for games or not invited for lunch will shudder with recognition."—Sunday Times(London)
"The Hivemaintains a healthy dose of humor within the mothers' characters. The novelist's British impersonations of the characters are hilarious ...The Hiveis a refreshing read because the Brits have perfectly constructed sentences, so enviably precise...The Hiveis a fun and witty read, one that everyone can relate to. As life evolves, we naturally evaluate our relationships and our contributions to them. Hornby gives us yet another fictional experience of how our relationships affect us, and how we can survive them." -The Aspen Times
"With a wicked eye and a giant heart, Gill Hornby weaves a lively and hilarious tale that's pure fun. If you lovedBridget Jones's Diaryand you have a child in school,The Hiveis the book for you." --Maria Semple, author ofWhere'd You Go, Bernadette
"The familiar notion that a group of women behaves like a hive is developed here into an enjoyable acerbic social commentary on mean girls of all ages, lightened by touches of hen lit." -Library Journal(starred review)
Proponents of career-centered feminism,such as Leslie Bennetts, often stress the financial and other dangers of leaving the workplace. What happens to your negotiating abilities? Do political antennae grow dull? For that answer, look no further than Gill Hornby (who, for the record, has "absolutely no view" on how other women should live) and yet who has, after "a good 16, 17 years of not going out there," produced a sophisticated commercial novel about what she knows that is deeply plugged in to our zeitgeist. -The Daily Beast
"Hornby's combining of 'the sticky stuff' and the daily ups and downs is marvelously conveyed - altogether delish." -The Spectator