Heather McGowan ist eine amerikanische Schriftstellerin, deren Werk sich mit der Komplexität der menschlichen Erfahrung auseinandersetzt. Ihre stilistisch ausgefeilte Prosa enthüllt oft verborgene Charakter-Motivationen und gesellschaftliche Nuancen. McGowan erforscht Themen wie Identität, Reifung und die Suche nach Sinn in der modernen Welt. Ihre Romane zeichnen sich durch aufschlussreiche Beobachtungen und einen originellen Erzähsansatz aus.
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Heather McGowan’s widely praised first novel introduces a literary artist of consummate skill, and a narrative voice of astonishing sensitivity and sensuousness. Tracking every mercurial shift of her character’s consciousness, the result is dreamy, disquieting, and achingly alive. Schooling is a portrait of an adolescent girl, thirteen-year-old Catrine Evans, who following her mother’s death is uprooted from her home in America to an English boarding school. There she encounters classmates who sniff glue and engage in arson and instructors who make merciless fun of her accent. She also finds the sympathetic chemistry teacher Mr. Gilbert, who offers Catrine the friendship she so desperately wants–a friendship that gradually takes on sinister and obsessive overtones.