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HELP!! I need a summary of 'The Dead School' by Patrick McCabe for a school project and cant find it anywhere!!!!!!
Thanks

2007-02-20 03:41:58 · 4 answers · asked by Osadiqbaig 2 in Education & Reference Homework Help

4 answers

Have you read any of this book? I have never read this and on a quick search found only the following.

http://www.randomhouse.com/resources/bookgroup/deadschool_bgc.html

Set on the campus of St. Anthony's, a prestigious boy's school in Dublin named for the patron saint of lost things, The Dead School tells the story of Raphael Bell, the exacting headmaster who has created a sanctuary for the dwindling provincial Catholic culture of his boyhood. All's well until he invites the young Malachy Dudgeon to teach in St. Anthony's halls. Weaned on alcohol, television, and rock music, Malachy stands for everything that Raphael thinks is wrong with Ireland. Yet disparate as they are, the two men are linked by wrenching childhood losses that neither has learned to overcome. When tragedy strikes a student under Malachy's charge, the tensions simmering between the two men finally explode, leading to a tragic, mesmerizing denouement

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Here are some reviews which give bits and pieces of the summary:

http://www.palimpsest.org.uk/forum/showthread.php?p=56771

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Malachy Dudgeon has escaped the misery and madness of his childhood home and landed a job in the most famous school in Dublin. The headmaster, Raphael Bell, has overcome his own tragedies to forge a model career, but when Malachy and Raphael meet, they become inextricably engaged in a macabre relationship which proves fatal to their fortunes and their sanity.

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Unfortunately for you...the only way to know about this book is to have read it, which I'm assuming you didn't. You're going to have to ask a friend to help you out or hope someone has read it and answers this question for you. Hopefully, you learn from this and read your next assignment

2007-02-20 04:23:01 · answer #1 · answered by Riviera_ 4 · 0 1

Go to the library, check it out, write your own summary

2007-02-20 11:44:37 · answer #2 · answered by Funky B Funky 2 · 1 0

Wasn't he one of the Avengers?No sorry that was Patrick Mcnee

2007-02-20 11:48:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I agree - you'll never learn HOW TO LEARN - if you rely on others to do the graft for you. Homework is meant to be just that - work at home!

2007-02-20 11:50:10 · answer #4 · answered by jet-set 7 · 1 0

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