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

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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.


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