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02962aam a2200349Ia 4500 001 044243FA99C211EBB5A91D6626ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210410010007 008 200515s2020 nyu d 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0062999141 020 $a 9780062999146 035 $a (OCoLC)1154412922 040 $a TDS $b eng $c TDS $d GO3 $d OCLCF $d MOS $d SKYRV $d SILO 082 0 $a FIC 100 1 $a Thomas, Elisabeth $c (Novelist), $e author. 245 10 $a Catherine House $h [large print] : $b a novel / $c Elisabeth Thomas. 250 $a First Harper large print edition. 260 $a New York : $b Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, $c [2020] 300 $a 438 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a "Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions policy, and formidable endowment, has produced some of the world's best minds: prize-winning authors, artists, inventors, Supreme Court justices, presidents. For those lucky few selected, tuition, room, and board are free. But acceptance comes with a price. Students are required to give the House three years-summers included-completely removed from the outside world. Family, friends, television, music, even their clothing must be left behind. In return, the school promises a future of sublime power and prestige, and that its graduates can become anything or anyone they desire. Among this year's incoming class is Ines Murillo, who expects to trade blurry nights of parties, cruel friends, and dangerous men for rigorous intellectual discipline-only to discover an environment of sanctioned revelry. Even the school's enigmatic director, ViktoÌria, encourages the students to explore, to expand their minds, to find themselves within the formidable iron gates of Catherine. For Ines, it is the closest thing to a home she's ever had. But the House's strange protocols soon make this refuge, with its worn velvet and weathered leather, feel increasingly like a gilded prison. And when tragedy strikes, Ines begins to suspect that the school-in all its shabby splendor, hallowed history, advanced theories, and controlled decadence-might be hiding a dangerous agenda within the secretive, tightly knit group of students selected to study its most promising and mysterious curriculum." --audiobook container. 650 0 $a Private universities and colleges $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women college students $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Privilege (Social psychology) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Social isolation $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Tragedy $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Pennsylvania $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 941 $a 2 945 $a lpt 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909061244.0 952 $l JMPC081 $d 20210410010314.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=044243FA99C211EBB5A91D6626ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search