The Big Day
It was a big day for Cuthbertson's Regional School, and it would go off like a bomb.

Donald Cuthbertson prided himself on being a model for his students and teachers, but he had lately begun to lose his focus. Degree Day is approaching, along with a birthday party for his wife, Lavinia, who is not going quietly into middle age. Her lavish costume party provides the revelers with a darkly comic resolution to romantic dalliance and political intrigue.
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The Big Day
It was a big day for Cuthbertson's Regional School, and it would go off like a bomb.

Donald Cuthbertson prided himself on being a model for his students and teachers, but he had lately begun to lose his focus. Degree Day is approaching, along with a birthday party for his wife, Lavinia, who is not going quietly into middle age. Her lavish costume party provides the revelers with a darkly comic resolution to romantic dalliance and political intrigue.
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The Big Day

The Big Day

by Barry Unsworth
The Big Day

The Big Day

by Barry Unsworth

Paperback(Revised ed.)

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Overview

It was a big day for Cuthbertson's Regional School, and it would go off like a bomb.

Donald Cuthbertson prided himself on being a model for his students and teachers, but he had lately begun to lose his focus. Degree Day is approaching, along with a birthday party for his wife, Lavinia, who is not going quietly into middle age. Her lavish costume party provides the revelers with a darkly comic resolution to romantic dalliance and political intrigue.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393321494
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 02/17/2002
Series: Norton Paperback Fiction
Edition description: Revised ed.
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Barry Unsworth (1930-2012), who won the Booker Prize for Sacred Hunger, was a Booker Prize finalist for Morality Play and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize for The Ruby in Her Navel.
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