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The Headmaster Ritual (Paperback)

by Taylor Antrim (Author)
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  • Paperback: 309 pages
  • Publisher: Mariner Books (9 July 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0618756825
  • ISBN-13: 978-0618756827
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.7 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,835,905 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars a failure, 14 Aug 2007
The Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock once wrote about someone who didn't know what he was doing, "He got on his horse and rode off in all directions." The same could be said for Antrim's novel. What do we have here-- a bildungsroman a la CATCHER IN THE RYE where a naif stumbles his way towards some kind of illumination or redemption? Nope. Well sort of. No, not really... A satire of all the awful people and nasty little things that go on daily at those written-about-to-death New England prep schools; a kind of updated "Decline and Fall"? Nope. I could go on, but I'd just say nope to all of them. As one major newspaper review of this book so succinctly put it, "Nothing in 'The Headmaster's Ritual' is new." It is a very obvious first novel that strains to say a lot but ends up saying almost nothing, archly. Its flashes of humor or good writing are overshadowed constantly by flatness and characters/ situations you know could never exist the way they have been described.
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