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Feb 13, 2018 · In New Boy, the latest and quite possibly the greatest in the Hogarth Shakespeare collection, famed author Tracy Chevalier transforms the Shakespearean tragedy into an elementary school saga, rife with nostalgia and heartbreak.
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May 1, 2017 · Set in a 70s Washington DC primary school, this is the story of a new boy, Osei Kokote, who's the only black boy in an all-white suburban school. Dee is the girl who's assigned to show the new boy around.
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Tracy Chevalier brings Shakespeare’s Othello—a harrowing drama of jealousy and revenge—to a 1970s era elementary school playground. Arriving at his fifth school in as many years, diplomat’s son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day—so he’s lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school ...
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May 16, 2017 · Tracy Chevalier’s New Boy retells the story of Shakespeare’s Othello and is the latest book in the Hogarth Shakespeare series, in which Chevalier joins authors like Anne Tyler and Margaret Atwood in writing modern-day re-imaginings of Shakespeare plays.
May 30, 2017 · Tracy Chevalier's New Boy is a powerful, disquieting re-telling of Othello that falls squarely in the hits column. Chevalier transposes Shakespeare's tale of racism, jealousy and power into a 1970's suburban elementary school,…
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May 30, 2017 · In the latest installment of the Hogarth Shakespeare project, novelist Tracy Chevalier—author of Girl With a Pearl Earring —takes on the tragedy of Othello. But in a twist, she moves the action to a public elementary school playground in Washington, DC in the early 1970s.
