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    Boy in the Water
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    Boy in the Water
    Audiobook14 hours

    Boy in the Water

    Written by Stephen Dobyns

    Narrated by George Newbern

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    About this audiobook

    Another bucolic fall in northern New Hampshire, and the semester is under way at Bishop's Hill Academy. But the school year starts off less than tranquil. The new headmaster, Jim Hawthorne, has liberal ideas that the staff finds far from welcome. Serene on the surface, the ivy-clad, tree-lined campus gives few clues to the school's history of special privileges, petty corruptions, and hidden allegiances. But as autumn advances, the affable smiles and pretenses of virtue wear thin. And as winter closes in, students, teachers, and staff get an education in savagery and murder.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateDec 22, 2015
    ISBN9781682620953
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    Boy in the Water
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    Stephen Dobyns

    Stephen Dobyns is the author of eleven novels and six books of poetry. Born in New Jersey in 1941, he attended Shimer College, Wayne State University, and the University of Iowa. His most recent novels include Saratoga Bestiary and The Two Deaths of Senora puccini. Concurring Beasts, his first book of poems, was chosen the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1971. Black Dog, Red Dog was a selection of the National Poetry Series in 1984. Stephen Dobyns has taught courses on poetry and writing at many colleges and universities and is currently a professor of English at Syracuse University

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    • 4/5
      I continue to be impressed at Dobyns's combination of astute psychological realism and 90s thriller movie endings. It's a little disorienting there at the end sometimes, but it makes for an overall compelling read.
    • 3/5
      Quel disappointment! This books started off really well but ended as a mess. I loved, loved, *loved* Dobyns' The Church of Dead Girls and had high hopes for this one. But despite some flashes of the brilliance evident in "Church," this novel suffered from useless detail and clunky writing. There was a lot of potential in the story of a boarding school for troubled teens and the efforts to drive away the new headmaster, but the characterizations were very weak and some of the dialogue was just laugh-out-loud funny. My disappointment was keener because of the unrealized potential. Rather than harp on all the things wrong with this one, I'll just encourage you to seek out The Church of Dead Girls which remains one of the best suspense novels I've ever read.
    • 4/5
      A standalone suspense novel by Dobyns set in a boarding school. This one isn't nearly as good as his other two mysteries I've read.
    • 5/5
      Very good novel, great characters and eerie setting really enjoyed It?