Bégaudeau, François. The Class. translated by Linda Asher Seven Stories Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1583228852 272 pp. $17.95

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Sort of an international version of Stand & Deliver, the narrator, an instructor of French language & literature in France, has such disdain for his students that he’s not going to endear himself with a potential youth audience! The structure of the dialogue, with so little attribution, may be somewhat challenging for readers to distinguish whom is speaking.