School's Out.(Brief article)(Book review)

Publication: The New Yorker

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At a middle school in Clerval, the teacher of class 9F jumps to his death, in an apparent suicide. Pierre Hoffman, a thirty-two-year-old melancholic literature instructor, is told to take his place and immediately senses something "unsettling" about the students. Gossip reveals that the entire staff is spooked by...

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