Book Description
for In the Graveyard by Gail Sidonie Sobat
From the Publisher
Charles Webb’s first novel,The Graduate, was made into the acclaimed film. Six years ago he moved to the UK and wrote New Cardiff.
From the Hardcover edition.At the end of Charles Webb’s first novel,The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock rescues his beloved Elaine from a marriage made not in heaven but in California.
It is now eleven years and 3,000 miles later, and the couple live in Westchester County, a suburb of New York City, with their two young sons whom they are educating at home. Through no accident, a continent now stands between them and the boys’ surviving grandparent, now known as Nan, but who in former days answered to Mrs. Robinson.
As the story opens, the Braddock household is in turmoil as the Westchester School Board attempts to quash the unconventional educational methods the family is practicing.
Desperate situations call for desperate remedies — even a cry for help to the mother-in-law from hell, who is only too happy to provide her loving services — but at a price far higher than could be expected.
Charles Webb has a knack for pinpointing the horrors and absurdities of domestic life, andHome Schooldisplays all the precision and wit that madeThe Graduatesuch a long-lasting success.
From the Hardcover edition.“Distinctive, wry, spare and beautifully modulated.”–Daily Telegraph
“Forty years overdue, the sequel to The Graduate was worth the wait. A great read.”–The London Paper
From the Hardcover edition.At the end of Charles Webb’s first novel,The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock rescues his beloved Elaine from a marriage made not in heaven but in California.
It is now eleven years and 3,000 miles later, and the couple live in Westchester County, a suburb of New York City, with their two young sons whom they are educating at home. Through no accident, a continent now stands between them and the boys’ surviving grandparent, now known as Nan, but who in former days answered to Mrs. Robinson.
As the story opens, the Braddock household is in turmoil as the Westchester School Board attempts to quash the unconventional educational methods the family is practicing.
Desperate situations call for desperate remedies — even a cry for help to the mother-in-law from hell, who is only too happy to provide her loving services — but at a price far higher than could be expected.
Charles Webb has a knack for pinpointing the horrors and absurdities of domestic life, andHome Schooldisplays all the precision and wit that madeThe Graduatesuch a long-lasting success.
From the Hardcover edition.“Distinctive, wry, spare and beautifully modulated.”–Daily Telegraph
“Forty years overdue, the sequel to The Graduate was worth the wait. A great read.”–The London Paper
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.
