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Daughters of the Revolution

Daughters of the Revolution

Cooke, Carolyn

Paperback

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

Historical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 030774146X
ISBN13: 9780307741462
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Jun 5 2012
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

In 1968, a clerical mistake threatens the prestigious but cash-strapped Goode School in the small New England town of Cape Wilde. After a century of all-male, old-boy education, the school accidentally admits its first female student: Carole Faust, a brilliant, outspoken, fifteen-year-old black girl whose arrival will have both an immediate and long-term effect on the prep school and everyone in its orbit.

There's the school's philandering headmaster, Goddard God Byrd, who had promised co-education over his dead body and who finds his syllabi full of dead white males and patriarchal tradition constantly challenged; there's EV, the daughter of God's widowed mistress who watches Carole's actions as she grows older with wide eyes and admiration; and, finally, there's Carole herself, who bears the singular challenge of being the First Girl in a world that's not quite ready to embrace her.

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