Class Trip: A Novel - Hardcover

Carrere, Emmanuel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805046941 ISBN 13: 9780805046946

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1997

Synopsis

Young Nicholas's class ski trip goes from bad to worse when his traveling prosthesis salesman father forgets to give him his suitcase and fills him with horror stories about people who kidnap children for their organs. 15,000 first printing. $12,500 ad/promo.

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Review:

In his second book to appear in this country, the French novelist Emmanuel Carrere recounts the trials--and mostly the terrors--of a ten-year-old boy named Nicholas. The setting appears harmless enough: as the story opens, Nicholas is being dropped off at a skiing school in the country. The most he has to fear, it seems, is his penchant for bedwetting. But soon the small humiliations and anxieties mount up. The two-week holiday becomes an exercise in pure dread, and Carrere's subtractive style ensures that the reader will never know quite enough about what's going on.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0805046941
• ISBN 13: 9780805046946
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 162