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Overview
Overview
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.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Jaquarello, Roland
- ISBN: 9781917293068
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 8.50 x 0.93
- Number Of Pages: 458
- Publication Year: 2024
Language:
English