"In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving 'Brotherhood of the Arts, ' two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed--or untoyed with--by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley. The outside world of family life and economic ...
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"In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving 'Brotherhood of the Arts, ' two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed--or untoyed with--by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley. The outside world of family life and economic status, of academic pressure and of their future adult lives, fails to penetrate this school's walls--until it does, in a ... spiral of events that catapults the action forward in time and flips the premise upside-down"--
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New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by National Book Award Winning Author Susan Choi in person. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 272 p. Audience: General/trade. New (Pristine Condition) in a New (Pristine Condition) dust jacket; a tight copy which was bought new and never read; opened only for signing. A First Edition-First Printing with a full number line beginning with 1. Susan Choi's "Trust Exercise" was the winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction. This collectible copy is Signed and dated on the Title page, by Award Winning Author Susan Choi, in person, on April 17, 2019, during her book tour event for this Title, in Brooklyn, New York. An event flyer, and a photo of Susan during the event, will be included. "Trust Exercise" is a coming-of-age novel about Sarah and David from different socio-economic backgrounds. The novel is as captivating and tender as it is surprising. In addition to winning the National Book Award for Fiction, "Trust Exercise" was named a Best Book of 2019 by a multitude of entities such as The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, TIME and Publishers Weekly, to name a few. Rest assured, this collectible copy is well protected in an archival Mylar cover; and will be very carefully packaged with protective material; and will be shipped in a new box. We always treat all of our books, and book buyers with the utmost respect.
