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The English Teacher Paperback – June 7, 2006
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This is a passionate tale of a mother and son's vital bond and a provocative look at our notions of intimacy, honesty, loyalty, and the real meaning of home. A triumphant and masterful follow-up to her multi-award-winning debut, The English Teacher confirms Lily King as one of the most accomplished and vibrant young voices of today.
- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGrove Press
- Publication dateJune 7, 2006
- Dimensions6.62 x 0.76 x 8.08 inches
- ISBN-100802142664
- ISBN-13978-0802142665
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- Publisher : Grove Press; Reprint edition (June 7, 2006)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0802142664
- ISBN-13 : 978-0802142665
- Item Weight : 10.5 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.62 x 0.76 x 8.08 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #649,290 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #8,586 in Psychological Fiction (Books)
- #17,105 in Family Life Fiction (Books)
- #37,454 in Literary Fiction (Books)
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About the author

Lily King grew up in Massachusetts and received her B.A. in English Literature from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her M.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. She has taught English and Creative Writing at several universities and high schools in this country and abroad.
Lily’s first novel, The Pleasing Hour (1999) won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and was a New York Times Notable Book and an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her second, The English Teacher, was a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year, a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, and the winner of the Maine Fiction Award. Her third novel, Father of the Rain (2010), was a New York Times Editors Choice, a Publishers Weekly Best Novel of the Year and winner of both the New England Book Award for Fiction and the Maine Fiction Award. Lily's new novel, Euphoria, was released in June 2014. It has drawn significant acclaim so far, being named an Amazon Book of the Month, on the Indie Next List, and hitting numerous summer reading lists from The Boston Globe to O Magazine and USA Today. Reviewed on the cover of The New York Times, Emily Eakin called Euphoria, “a taut, witty, fiercely intelligent tale of competing egos and desires in a landscape of exotic menace.”
Lily is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and a Whiting Writer's Award. Her short fiction has appeared in literary magazines including Ploughshares and Glimmer Train, as well as in several anthologies.
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But the protagonist had problems that were too serious for her to deal with on her own. So her new husband and step children and her own son had to bear the brunt of her selfish behaviour. I wanted to slap her half the time I was reading this book. She was not at all likable, due of course to no fault of her own. But even in the midst of horrible memories, we have to sometimes move on, grow up and deal with it for the sake of others. Not this protagonist though. She didnt care what she was putting others through
Its a very well written book though. Maybe the author wants us to feel contempt for the central character ... if so, it worked