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Flanders Point: A Novel
Flanders Point: A Novel
Flanders Point: A Novel
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Flanders Point: A Novel

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A young girl at a Connecticut private school falls in love with her English teacher in this turbulent and tender first novel by the winner of the Yale University Willet Prize.

Flanders Point is a spit of land on the Connecticut shore of Long Island Sound, the site of a small, financially troubled girls' prep school called Haddam. To this school comes Charlotte Delafield, a gawky teen hoping to surmount the aftermath of her parents' difficult divorce, and Brian Parton, a restless young writer and English teacher. Through the everyday events of Charlotte's senior year--conflicts and misunderstanding in the classroom, as well as flashes of inspiration and learning, an annual outdoor Shakespeare production, and walks in the still, wild marshland of Flanders Point--the two find themselves drawn to each other. Under increasing emotional pressure, the barrier between student and teacher cracks but does not break--until graduation day.

In Flanders Point, Jacquie Gordon shows the promise of early Pat Conroy. And the novel conjures up those other coming-of-age classics we all treasure, like A Separate Peace and Catcher in the Rye.

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Release dateSep 9, 2014
ISBN9781466881082
Flanders Point: A Novel
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Jacquie Gordon

Jacquie Gordon is the author of Give Me One Wish, the story of her daughter's struggle with cystic fibrosis. Flanders Point, the winner of the Yale University Willet Prize, is her first novel. Currently completing her bachelor's degree in literature at Yale University, Jacquie Gordon lives in Connecticut.

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