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An intimately charged novel of desire and disaster from the author of "American Woman" and "A Person of Interest"
Regina Gottlieb had been warned about Professor Nicholas Brodeur long before arriving as a graduate student at his prestigious university high on a pastoral hill. He's said to lie in the dark in his office while undergraduate women read couplets to him. He's condemned on the walls of the women's restroom, and enjoys films by Roman Polanski. But no one has warned Regina about his exceptional physical beauty--or his charismatic, volatile wife.
"My Education" is the story of Regina's mistakes, which only begin in the bedroom, and end--if they do--fifteen years in the future and thousands of miles away. By turns erotic and completely catastrophic, Regina's misadventures demonstrate what can happen when the chasm between desire and duty is too wide to bridge.
Regina Gottlieb had been warned about Professor Nicholas Brodeur long before arriving as a graduate student at his prestigious university high on a pastoral hill. He's said to lie in the dark in his office while undergraduate women read couplets to him. He's condemned on the walls of the women's restroom, and enjoys films by Roman Polanski. But no one has warned Regina about his exceptional physical beauty--or his charismatic, volatile wife.
"My Education" is the story of Regina's mistakes, which only begin in the bedroom, and end--if they do--fifteen years in the future and thousands of miles away. By turns erotic and completely catastrophic, Regina's misadventures demonstrate what can happen when the chasm between desire and duty is too wide to bridge.
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""My Education "is a raw, wild, hurtling foray into the tangled realms of sexuality and self-knowledge. Susan Choi's vast gifts as a novelist are all on display, with her restlessness, curiosity and sheer daring leading the way." --Jennifer Egan
"When I finished Susan Choi's "My Education", I nearly gasped. She had managed one of the most exquisite of the novelist's magic acts - produced a cogent, passionate, and surprising story, while acknowledging the ordinary, eroding aspects of lives lived daily. She had populated it with remarkable but utterly believable characters. She had written lines that could be framed, and displayed at a sentence festival. She has, in short, written an amazing book." --Michael Cunningham
Praise for "My Education"
"The academic novel married to the novel of obsession is almost too pleasurable to contemplate, but that's what this book is...Choi's an extremely confident writer, and in "My Education" she beautifully explores the way a young person tries, and often fails, to navigate her budding and intersecting sexual, intellectual, and emotional lives. The writing in this novel is masterful - but the book did something to me emotionally, too. I felt like I was in an obsessive relationship with it. I wanted to read it all the time."--Meg Wolitzer, npr.org
"A smart and witty novel about college life...by the force of her stylistic virtuosity and psychological precision, Choi gives this worn setup all the nubile energy of a new school year...what makes this so delicious, though, is Choi's relentless style, the unflagging force of her scrutiny...few other writers alive today make their sentences work so hard."--"The Washington Post"
"Captivating...in intimate, erotic detail, the novel tackles the brutality of love and how an innocuous flirtation can become an all-consuming affair...through her elegant layering of complex emotions, Choi shows that infatuation can drive even the most sensible person to the brink of self-destruction."--"The San Francisco Chronicle"
"Choi gets top marks for slyly re-inventing the "affaire de l'Academie" in "My Education.""--"Vanity Fair"
"A fascinating examination of sexual politics and the many disguises of desire."--The Daily Beast
"A scorching hot read...a chaise-lounge literary page-turner par excellence: sexy, smart, well-plotted, jammed with observations witty and profound, and so well-written it occasionally leaves you gasping."--"New York"" Newsday"
"A tricky book to categorize. On the one hand, it's a campus novel...At the same time, this is just the background against which the larger story unfolds. What Choi is after is the elusive territory of e
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Praise for "My Education"
""My Education "is a raw, wild, hurtling foray into the tangled realms of sexuality and self-knowledge. Susan Choi's vast gifts as a novelist are all on display, with her restlessness, curiosity and sheer daring leading the way." --Jennifer Egan
"When I finished Susan Choi's "My Education", I nearly gasped. She had managed one of the most exquisite of the novelist's magic acts - produced a cogent, passionate, and surprising story, while acknowledging the ordinary, eroding aspects of lives lived daily. She had populated it with remarkable but utterly believable characters. She had written lines that could be framed, and displayed at a sentence festival. She has, in short, written an amazing book." --Michael Cunningham
Praise for "My Education"
"The academic novel married to the novel of obsession is almost too pleasurable to contemplate, but that's what this book is...Choi's an extremely confident writer, and in "My Education" she beautifully explores the way a young person tries, and often fails, to navigate her budding and intersecting sexual, intellectual, and emotional lives. The writing in this novel is masterful - but the book did something to me emotionally, too. I felt like I was in an obsessive relationship with it. I wanted to read it all the time."--Meg Wolitzer, npr.org
"A smart and witty novel about college life...by the force of her stylistic virtuosity and psychological precision, Choi gives this worn setup all the nubile energy of a new school year...what makes this so delicious, though, is Choi's relentless style, the unflagging force of her scrutiny...few other writers alive today make their sentences work so hard."--"The Washington Post"
"Captivating...in intimate, erotic detail, the novel tackles the brutality of love and how an innocuous flirtation can become an all-consuming affair...through her elegant layering of complex emotions, Choi shows that infatuation can drive even the most sensible person to the brink of self-destruction."--"The San Francisco Chronicle"
"Choi gets top marks for slyly re-inventing the "affaire de l'Academie" in "My Education.""--"Vanity Fair"
"A fascinating examination of sexual politics and the many disguises of desire."--The Daily Beast
"A scorching hot read...a chaise-lounge literary page-turner par excellence: sexy, smart, well-plotted, jammed with observations witty and profound, and so well-written it occasionally leaves you gasping."--"New York"" Newsday"
"A tricky book to categorize. On the one hand, it's a campus novel...At the same time, this is just the background against which the larger story unfolds. What Choi is after is the elusive territory of e
Susan Choi's first novel, "The Foreign Student," won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. Her second novel, "American Woman," was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her third, "A Person of Interest," a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. A recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, in 2010 she received the PEN/W. G.Sebald Award. She teaches at Princeton and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and sons.
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1410464180
- ISBN 13 9781410464187
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages581
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