"Home School" - sequel to "The Graduate"
ohiomomma
This was just on my Internet homepage ( shortened below, for here).
I loved the Graduate; so many memorable scenes and such great music by Simon and Garfunkel. I've seen it several times and never picked up that it was about disenchantment with education. But, then I was just a little kid when it came out and haven't seen it since having my own kids and homeschooling.
I wonder how the author will portray the homeschool family of Benjamin and Elaine ? I suppose they'll be a really dysfunctional family, especially if Grandma (Mrs. Robinson) gets involved!
Carol
Elusive American writer Charles Webb said Wednesday he has signed a publishing deal for a sequel to his 1963 novel "The Graduate," .
"Home School" picks up the lives of Braddock and Elaine about 10 years on, living in upstate New York with their two children and trying to keep Mrs. Robinson at bay.
"Home School" is based on Webb's own experience of pulling his children out of the California school system in the 1970s.
"Not a lot of people picked up on it, but the title of 'The Graduate' was supposed to convey it was about education," he said. "Benjamin is disenchanted with education, and once his kids enter the system he finds it intolerable."
Random House said it planned to publish the book in Britain in June 2007.
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I loved the Graduate; so many memorable scenes and such great music by Simon and Garfunkel. I've seen it several times and never picked up that it was about disenchantment with education. But, then I was just a little kid when it came out and haven't seen it since having my own kids and homeschooling.
I wonder how the author will portray the homeschool family of Benjamin and Elaine ? I suppose they'll be a really dysfunctional family, especially if Grandma (Mrs. Robinson) gets involved!
Carol
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>LONDON - Here's to you Mrs. Robinson is back.
Elusive American writer Charles Webb said Wednesday he has signed a publishing deal for a sequel to his 1963 novel "The Graduate," .
"Home School" picks up the lives of Braddock and Elaine about 10 years on, living in upstate New York with their two children and trying to keep Mrs. Robinson at bay.
"Home School" is based on Webb's own experience of pulling his children out of the California school system in the 1970s.
"Not a lot of people picked up on it, but the title of 'The Graduate' was supposed to convey it was about education," he said. "Benjamin is disenchanted with education, and once his kids enter the system he finds it intolerable."
Random House said it planned to publish the book in Britain in June 2007.
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