The Tutor - Hardcover

Abrahams, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585472700 ISBN 13: 9781585472703

Publisher: Center Point Pub, 2003

Synopsis

Scott and Linda Gardner hire the capable Julian Sawyer to tutor their troubled teenage son, Brandon, unaware that this enigmatic man is concealing a dark agenda of his own that will destroy the family.

About this title

Review:

"Peter Abrahams is my favorite American suspense novelist."
--STEPHEN KING

From the Hardcover edition.

From the Author:

I loved Sherlock Holmes when I was a kid, just as the character Ruby does, and in some ways The Tutor is a Holmesian story. I don’t know whether the intense competition in the U.S. to get into elite colleges and universities has a parallel in Britain. The SAT test, the central instigating factor in this story, purports to measure scholastic aptitude, and is taken by almost all college-bound students. I haven’t exaggerated the tension it induces in middle-class American families in the slightest. The demand for SAT tutors, some private, some working for big tutoring companies, get stronger all the time. Why wouldn’t some of these tutors develop a hidden disdain for their clientele? Julian just goes a little further.

About this edition

• Publisher: Center Point Pub
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1585472700
• ISBN 13: 9781585472703
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 424