Grievous

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Price
$23.99  $22.31
Publisher
Picador USA
Publish Date
Pages
544
Dimensions
5.6 X 8.7 X 1.5 inches | 1.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781250251206
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About the Author
H. S. Cross was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. She was educated at Harvard and has taught at Friends Seminary, among other schools. Her novels are Wilberforce and Grievous, and she is currently at work on the next novel linked to St. Stephen's Academy.
Reviews

"[Grievous] is beautifully written, a tour de force of psychological insight into its richly realized characters, and an extraordinary exercise in mood, tone, and characterization. It is not to be missed." --Michael Cart, Booklist (starred review)

"Five years after the upheaval depicted in Wilberforce (2015), life at St. Stephen's Academy has returned to its version of normalcy. That is to say, its public school boys talk a strange slang while enduring bullying, caning, and countless other rituals . . . Cross is a good writer who draws on a Kipling-esque nostalgia in her entertainingly peculiar picture of the public school as crucible for young male Brits." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"If you had told me, earlier this year, that I would be immersed in not one but two long novels set in an English boarding school, I would have scoffed. If you had told me that I would be looking forward to the author's next book . . . I would have been incredulous. Such is the power of a writer like H. S. Cross." --John Wilson, National Review

"Grievous is a complex portrait of a sensitive housemaster in a 1931 English boarding school and his nemesis, an angry boy who hides his true self in a box of mysterious letters . . . Perceptively and richly written, this novel tells of a lost monastic world where the need to be loved may never be spoken and yet is in every heartbeat." --Stephanie Cowell, author of Claude and Camille and The Physician of London

"Similar work was done by Flannery O'Connor, say, or Walker Percy, although I would place Cross closer to the Scottish novelist Muriel Spark: the extraordinary ordinary . . . You will find Grievous is strangely hopeful. Indeed, it is a work of love for our demented world." --Victor Lee Austin, The Living Church

"[An] intense . . . and moving narrative about lives of quiet and not-so-quiet desperation . . . Cross's fine eye for detail and empathy for the human condition . . . [are] rewarding in their emotional insights." --Kristen McDermott, Historical Novel Society