Even though it's technically an omniscient narrator, it's filtered through characters who are either making things up like the saxophone teacher or not giving us an objective look at what's happening. Everything having to do with the plot is delivered to us by unreliable points of view. While there he finds himself driven to the middle of the pack and is not thought of as being particularly talented. Can anyone understand it? Bridget is always wanting to be somebody else. She recommends that her daughter play the clarinet because it's the sperm of the sax or some bullshit like that. 
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For the record, I am not normally drawn to books featuring teenage girls, sexual awakening, or the halting and fumbling GLBT experimentation which eleaonr as the plot drivers in this post-modern John Hughes saga of rehezrsal angst. I would love to see more raters giving good books 3 or 4 stars even if it wasn't their cup of tea, just for the sake of others on Goodreads. Ths acting teachers seem to hate everyone and are supportive of one student practically drowning on stage.
Frankly, it was terrible. At the core of the novel we find a relationship between a student and a teacher. The story starts off with a bitchy middle aged saxophone teacher telling some mother that her precious snowflake isn't ready yet to start playing the sax, because the sax is edgy, sexy and dangerous. Catton seems to play with and disrupt genre forms and expectations.
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A subplot about one girl maybe seducing another, possibly with encouragement from the mordantly funny saxophone teacher they both share or possibly just in the saxophone teacher's imagination, or possibly just in the girls' imaginationsteases out the threat of female adolescent sexuality more: But the all-the-world's-a-stage and the is-this-really-happening-or-is-this-actually-part-of-the-play-within-the-novel conceit of the book is also aggravating, not that interesting, and led me not to care that much.
The girls at the school don't really hear what happened between Victoria and Mr. The extreme contrast did not help the experience. It could have been precious at best, pretentious at worst, but Catton uses these jarring registers to shocking, funny and poignant effect; the theatrical declamations give expression to the submerged undercurrents of teenage life, allowing characters to articulate unspoken fears, desires and social codes as well as embodying the drama of adolescence itself.
They are, without exception, complex, and feel ultimately realistic, even when we only know them by their job titles, or when they exist only on the periphery. The institute prides itself on breaking and remaking students thf Stanley will need all his strength to survive the extreme teaching.
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
She explored and exploited the stage experience with a witty and subversive precision. And this is a better book for not overtly preaching, for simply setting out jigsaw pieces of opinion and experience.
One can invest in the plot, the characters, the intense cutting atmosphere, and the words themselves. Isolde wonders about her sister's choices, musing about them, but knowing she will never be able to directly confront Victoria.
If that's an issue for you, that's on reheaesal.
So the blankness is deliberate just as is the way their teachers are referred to by their departmental roles, not their names, and few of the students gain names until late in proceedings. Some of the scenes are intriguing, and the book is very well written, ultimately though its lack of credibility and coherence was distracting and annoying. Rehearsa does this by playing with time as the book is filled with time jumps, and by using all sorts of unreliable witnes If set in context cattin book really deserves four stars.
Isolde, who is two years younger than the rest of the students, is forced to attend with the older girls. I read this book for my book group.
It lets writers think they have something interesting to say about The Human Condition when they have nothing to say about actual human lives. Moreover, she told a story about human nature, about pretending and escaping your limitations, about navigating through the quagmire of human desires--to find truth though lies. I could not finish this book. Never a good sign. My wife typically asks how a book was once I'm done, and Rehfarsal say things like "It was good, except for x, y and z, and I don't think the author put enough rehearszl into a, and I don't know.
This is a splendid read. Both find different ways of trying to do that; neither seems, to me, to do all that well out of it. Aug 12, Colin Bruce Anthes rated it it was amazing. I lack the patience and the inclination to ponder the improbable, non-linear plot.
She did the same thing in The Luminariesonly in twice as many pages - thr lot of narrative but leading nowhere.
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