{"product_id":"the-rehearsal-b-format","title":"The Rehearsal (B Format)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eThe debut novel from the Booker Prize–winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Luminaries\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBirnam Wood.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eAs a rumour spreads about a teacher sleeping with a student, a group of teenage girls are jolted into new awareness of their own vertiginous sexuality. Ripples move outward in unexpected directions: the saxophone teacher directs the girls in workshopping their desires, and the local drama school adapts the scandal for a show.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eEvery action is a performance, and every platform a stage. The boundaries between private and public begin to dissolve – or perhaps were never there.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eExhilarating and original, \u003cem\u003eThe \u003cspan data-markjs=\"true\"\u003eRehearsal\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis at once a tender evocation of its young protagonists and a shrewd exposé of emotional compromise. It reveals the singular daring that has defined Catton’s career.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'As debuts go, this one is astral – as well as teasing, intelligent and knowing.' —Tom Adair, \u003cem\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The book of the year for me was without doubt \u003cem\u003eThe Rehearsal\u003c\/em\u003e, by the preternaturally gifted New Zealand author Eleanor Catton . . . Perverse, erotic, complex, funny, experimental, and written with the confidence and courage of a true artist.' —Paul Murray, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Bee Sting\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The Rehearsal is controlled, elegant and utterly readable, even at its most slippery.' —Adrian Turpin,\u003cem\u003e The Financial Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEleanor Catton\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Luminaries \u003c\/em\u003e(2013), winner of the Booker Prize, the Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award, and the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction. Her debut novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Rehearsal \u003c\/em\u003e(2009), won the New Zealand Best First Book of Fiction Award and the Betty Trask Prize, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize. As a screenwriter, she adapted \u003cem\u003eThe Luminaries\u003c\/em\u003e for television, and Jane Austen’s \u003cem\u003eEmma \u003c\/em\u003efor feature film. Her third novel, \u003cem\u003eBirnam Wood \u003c\/em\u003e(2023), was shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. Born in 1985 in Canada and raised in New Zealand, she lives in Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eCover photograph: Yvonne Todd, \u003cem\u003eMordene\u003c\/em\u003e (2005)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eCover design: Todd Atticus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', system-ui, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Web', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753555755319,"sku":"9781776923311","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776923311TheRehearsalBformat.jpg?v=1772778105","url":"https:\/\/teherengawakapress.co.nz\/products\/the-rehearsal-b-format","provider":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}