Menge:

oder

Loggen Sie sich ein, um 1-Click® einzuschalten.

Alle Angebote

41 Angebote ab EUR 0,99

M�chten Sie verkaufen?
Hier verkaufen

F�r Kunden: Stellen Sie Ihre eigenen Bilder ein.

Hier reinlesen und suchen

The Crazy School (Gebundene Ausgabe)

von Cornelia Read (Autor)

3.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)

Statt:	EUR 21,99
Jetzt:	EUR 20,99 Kostenlose Lieferung. Siehe Details.
	o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

Auf Lager. Versand kann bis zu 2 zus�tzliche Tage in Anspruch nehmen.
Verkauf und Versand durch Amazon.de. Geschenkverpackung verf�gbar.

Noch 1 St�ck auf Lager.

28 neu ab EUR 5,62 13 gebraucht ab EUR 0,99

Weitere Ausgaben:	Preis:	Weitere Angebote:
Taschenbuch	EUR 12,99	Gebraucht bestellen!
Audio CD (Audiobook)	EUR 23,99	13 Angebote ab EUR 16,96
Gebundene Ausgabe (Gro�druck)	EUR 27,99	13 Angebote ab EUR 26,99
H�rkassette (Audiobook)	EUR 23,99	3 Angebote ab EUR 23,99
MP3 CD (Audiobook)	EUR 23,99	7 Angebote ab EUR 23,99

Amazon Kindle - Jetzt internationaler Versand aus den USA
Entdecken Sie über 250.000 englischsprachige Bücher, Zeitungen und Zeitschriften. Mehr erfahren und bestellen bei Amazon.com in den USA.

› Weitere Hinweise und Aktionen

Wird oft zusammen gekauft

Kunden, die diesen Artikel gekauft haben, kauften auch

A Field of Darkness

von Cornelia Read

EUR 13,99

Dark Fire (Shardlake)

von Christopher J. Sansom

4.0 von 5 Sternen (1) EUR 9,49

Dissolution (Shardlake)

von Christopher J. Sansom

4.5 von 5 Sternen (2) EUR 9,10

Die Gegenp�pstin, 2 MP3-CDs

von Martina Andr�

4.0 von 5 Sternen (88) EUR 8,97

› Weitere Artikel entdecken

Produktinformation

Gebundene Ausgabe: 336 Seiten
Verlag: Grand Central Publishing (10. Januar 2008)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 044658259X
ISBN-13: 978-0446582599
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 23,1 x 15,5 x 3,3 cm

Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)

Amazon.de Verkaufsrang: Nr. 91.303 in Englische Bücher (Die Bestseller Englische Bücher)

M�chten Sie die Produktinformationen aktualisieren oder Feedback zu den Produktabbildungen geben?

Produktbeschreibungen

From Publishers Weekly

At the start of Edgar-finalist Read's gutsy second Madeline Dare novel (after 2006's A Field of Darkness), Dare, a 26-year-old former debutante, takes a job in the fall of 1989 as a history teacher at Santangelo Academy, an unorthodox therapeutic boarding school in western Massachusetts dominated by its authoritarian cape-wearing headmaster, David Santangelo. When a student, Mooney LeChance, reveals that his girlfriend, Fay Perry, is pregnant, Dare keeps Mooney's secret while the couple is confined to the Farm, a punishment dorm in the woods. The book's first half focuses on character—the woefully misguided souls who teach at Santangelo, the students in all their dysfunctional glory—but the action picks up when Mooney and Fay die from drinking poisoned punch after a birthday party at the Farm, and Dare is arrested for her role in preparing the fatal beverage. While some characters, like the social-climbing parents who drop in between vacations, verge on stereotype, Read graphically depicts the depressing underside of a supposedly elite private school. (Jan.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Pressestimmen

Praise for A Field of Darkness: 'Spellbinding.' New York Times Book Review 'A sensational debut.' Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 'Read's plot crackles and pops.' Booklist (starred review) 'A chilling, realistic thriller brimming with intrigue.' Romantic Times 'Completely captivating- wry, knowing, hip, intelligent, exciting. One of the best debuts I've ever seen.' Lee Child

Alle Produktbeschreibungen

Was kaufen Kunden, nachdem sie diesen Artikel angesehen haben?

	62% kaufen den auf dieser Seite vorgestellten Artikel: The Crazy School 3.0 von 5 Sternen (1) EUR 20,99
	20% kaufen A Field of Darkness EUR 13,99
	18% kaufen Schneewei�chen und Rosentot: Kriminalroman 3.0 von 5 Sternen (9) EUR 14,90

Weitere Artikel entdecken

In diesem Buch (Mehr dazu)

Ausgew�hlte Seiten ansehen
Buchdeckel | Copyright | Auszug

Kundenrezensionen

1 Rezension

5 Sterne:		(0)
4 Sterne:		(0)
3 Sterne:		(1)
2 Sterne:		(0)
1 Sterne:		(0)

Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung

3.0 von 5 Sternen (1 Kundenrezension)

Sagen Sie Ihre Meinung zu diesem Artikel:

Eigene Rezension erstellen

Die hilfreichsten Kundenrezensionen

0 von 4 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich:

3.0 von 5 Sternen School Days....Fool on the Hill Days, 21. Januar 2009

Von	BeatleBangs1964 (United States) - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen

The ominous Santangelo Academy for disturbed youth is set in the Berkshires. This idyllic backdrop stands out in stark contrast to the school and the majority of the characters. Set in 1989, the story reflects the terminology of the times.

Enter Madeline Dare, whom readers met in Read's earlier book, A FIELD OF DARKNESS. A toilet mouthed Camel-smoking ex-deb, she and her husband Dean leave the Rust Belt/Snow Belt of Syracuse, N.Y. for the Berkshires. Readers know from the previous book that Madeline has committed homicide in self-defense. She arrives at the school gates with her own set of baggage.

The cast of characters are bizarre, to say the least. There is Dhumavati, the school's dean of students. There are the students, all of whom present volatile and dangerous behavior. Classes are small, 4 or less per period. Tim, Gerald and Pete make up the male staff. Mindy, a fat, unappealling whinebag with a sense of entitlement is another female teacher on the staff at Santangelo Academy. Rude and stuffed with a sense of entitlement and a plethora of inane drivel, Mindy is the staff laughingstock because of her canopy bed and her menagerie of pink, stuffed animals whom she can't live without. Another reviewer on the US boards describes this ship of fools as "the weirdest bunch of teachers in fiction," which is a startlingly apt description.

The therapy sessions which all parents and staff are required to attend sound like psychological dog-piling sessions. Sookie, a rather weird psychiatrist insists Madeline has been sexually abused due to her good posture. Nothing will disabuse her of that notion. The other teachers are verbally abused and humilated to the point of tears and ridicule. In one memorable session, I just loved it when Madeline socked it to that stupid Mindy. I loved it when she called that whinebag on her annoying behavior and sniping, petty meanness. To say I could not abide Mindy and felt she got what she had coming would be a vast understatement.

Then there is Lulu, Madeline's friend. Another potty-mouthed smoker, the two sneak coffee and Camels off grounds as they don't reside on campus. Since the campus has a ban on smoking and caffeine, the two indulge their vices in their respective apartments.

David Santangelo is a dark character. He's a demagogic prophet and a mountebank with a questionable background. His rules and treatment of the staff are ludicrous and cruel. One wonders how he has stayed in business as long as he has. Kind of makes you think of Bettelheim, who defrauded the public for decades.

Matters come to a head when two students are found dead. The school has a seclusion ward called "the Farm," which consists of a bunkhouse set far back from the main building. Inmates on the Farm are expected to chop wood and set out rat poison and tend the garden. Dhumavati's special pleasure comes from maintaining that garden which is a memorial shrine to the daughter she lost in 1978.

Questions naturally abound, such as who killed these kids who were young lovers? The girl, Fay was pregnant, a fact which very few people even knew. Her bracelet was found in Madeline's pocket after Madeline was found drugged and delusional on the Farm grounds.

More questions crop up, such as the charge of sexual abuse of students. One teacher is named as abusing a boy named Parker (probably named after author Robert Parker, who saw Michael DeSisto at a party given by a notorious pedophile).

Who REALLY killed those kids? And were the allegations of sexual abuse founded? Did they decide to die together, in a suicide pact? Did other inmates kill them? Somebody on the staff? Could it have been stupid, whinebag Mindy? Dhumavati, who lost a child? One of the male staffpersons? Santangelo? The mysteries surrounding the deaths of these students lead Madeline deeper into the history of the school and lead to a very bizarre, albeit interesting conclusion.

Since this book was based on the very real therapeutic boarding school, the DeSisto School which closed in 2004, one cannot help but wonder if some of the atrocities committed at Santangelo actually occurred at DeSisto.

The story was just okay, but I had trouble with the parallels and connections to the 1978 Jonestown Murders in Guyana. Although I was not overly fond of Madeline, she was sharp and funny and I loved the way she called a spade a spade. I also loved the way she ripped into that unappealing, obnoxious whinebag Mindy. The ending was rather implausible, but c'est la vie. Although it was not my favorite, it did provide literary entertainment.

Kommentar Kommentar | Kommentar als Link | War diese Rezension f�r Sie hilfreich? Ja Nein (Rezension unzumutbar?)

Sagen Sie Ihre Meinung zu diesem Artikel: Eigene Rezension erstellen

› Alle Kundenrezensionen ansehen

.jsOffDisplayBlock { display: block; } .jsOffDisplayInline { display: inline; } .jsOffVisibility { visibility: visible; } .jsOnDisplayBlock { display: none; } .jsOnDisplayNoneBlock { display: block; } .jsOnDisplayNoneInline { display: inline; } .jsOnDisplayInline { display: none; } .jsOnVisibility { visibility: hidden; } .jqOnDisplayBlock { display: none; } .jqOnDisplayInline { display: none; } .jqOnVisibility { visibility: hidden; } .jqOnDisplayNoneBlock { display: block; } .jqOnDisplayNoneInline { display: inline; }

Kunden diskutieren

Das Forum zu diesem Produkt

Diskussion	Antworten	J�ngster Beitrag
Noch keine Diskussionen

Fragen stellen. Meinungen austauschen. Neues erfahren.

Aktive Diskussionen in �hnlichen Foren

Diskussion	Antworten	J�ngster Beitrag
englische b�cher B�cher zum Thema "Massenmedien" - Facharbeit in Englisch	4	Vor 25 Minuten
englische b�cher "Thy" und "Thou"..?	35	Vor 51 Minuten
englische b�cher Englische Romane die zur Zeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs spielen	18	Vor 6 Stunden
englische b�cher Euer erstes englischsprachiges Buch?	204	Vor 23 Stunden
englische b�cher Wie lest ihr englische B�cher?	147	Vor 23 Stunden
englische b�cher Eure liebsten englischsprachigen Fantasyb�cher?	37	Gestern
englische b�cher *******SUCHE englische Fantasy- Buch- SERIE*******	18	Gestern