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Rank Insubordination!
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781917293068
Publisher: Roland Jaquarello
Published: Aug 23 2024
Pages: 454
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Rank Insubordination! is a comic and dramatic novel set during a year in a boys' English public school in the mid-1950s, at the time of the cold war, the Suez Crisis and the end of empire.
An austere headmaster struggles to deal with growing pupil rebellion, led by the school's Lenin.
A despotic monitor, desperately competes with the rugby captain forthe amorous attention of a young French woman.
A junior housemaster, renowned for his punishment floggings, gets into a tangled relationship with an assertive matron.
Parents struggle with the school's hierarchical ethos.
As serious unrest ferments, everybody grapples with the post-war legacy and a future with continental Europe.
It's a lively story about a seminal period in the past; one with a modern resonance.
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