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03595aam a2200349 i 4500 001 2E80430AA78F11E99DEDB91B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190716010101 007 n 008 181224s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2018061217 020 $a 0525534970 ebook 020 $a 9780525534976 ebook 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Holsinger, Bruce W. 245 14 $a The gifted school : $b a novel / $c Bruce Holsinger. 264 1 $a New York : $b Riverhead Books, $c 2019. 300 $a 1 online resource. 520 $a ""Like Big Little Lies with standardized testing, this addictive novel digs hard into the culture of striving parents and anxious children, exploring privilege, competition and the elusiveness of happiness. A deeply pleasurable read." - Meg Wolitzer Smart and juicy, a compulsively readable novel about a previously happy group of friends and parents that is nearly destroyed by their own competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted children opens in the community. This deliciously sharp novel captures the relentless ambitions and fears that animate parents and their children in modern America, exploring the conflicts between achievement and potential, talent and privilege. Set in the fictional town of Crystal, Colorado, The Gifted School is a keenly entertaining novel that observes the drama within a community of friends and parents as good intentions and high ambitions collide in a pile-up with long-held secrets and lies. Seen through the lens of four families who've been a part of one another's lives since their kids were born over a decade ago, the story reveals not only the lengths that some adults are willing to go to get ahead, but the effect on the group's children, sibling relationships, marriages, and careers, as simmering resentments come to a boil and long-buried, explosive secrets surface and detonate. It's a humorous, keenly observed, timely take on ambitious parents, willful kids, and the pursuit of prestige, no matter the cost"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "This deliciously sharp novel captures the relentless ambitions and fears that animate parents and their children in modern America, exploring the conflicts between achievement and potential, talent and privilege. Set in the fictional town of Crystal, Colorado, The Gifted School is a keenly entertaining novel that observes the drama within a community of friends and parents as good intentions and high ambitions collide in a pile-up with long-held secrets and lies. Seen through the lens of four families who've been a part of one another's lives since their kids were born over a decade ago, the story reveals not only the lengths that some adults are willing to go to get ahead, but the effect on the group's children, sibling relationships, marriages, and careers, as simmering resentments come to a boil and long-buried, explosive secrets surface and detonate. It's a humorous, keenly observed, timely take on ambitious parents, willful kids, and the pursuit of prestige, no matter the cost"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20190101. 650 7 $a FICTION / Literary. 650 7 $a FICTION / Family Life. 650 7 $a FICTION / Psychological. 655 $a Psychological fiction. 941 $a 5 952 $l FCPB384 $d 20200901010138.0 952 $l SKPC094 $d 20200125014844.0 952 $l FTPA274 $d 20191112010353.0 952 $l JZPB162 $d 20190820010521.0 952 $l ZAPB232 $d 20190716013152.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2E80430AA78F11E99DEDB91B97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search