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Prodigy Hardcover - 2005

by Dave Kalstein


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"""If the characters from "Less Than Zero" and "The""Secret History" woke up in a novel by Philip K. Dick, they'd get along famously with the precocious students of Stansbury."
-Dustin Thomason, bestselling author of "The Rule of Four" A thriller set in the future at an ultra-elite prep school that asks: what is the price of perfection?
In the year 2036, the world's best boarding school is the Stansbury School. The students, better known as specimens, are screened at a young age and then given twelve years of the finest education -- and developmental drug regiment --available. Stansbury graduates -- physically and mentally -- are in a class all by themselves. Four out of five go onto Harvard, Yale or Princeton; twenty out of the top thirty Forbes 500 companies have Stansbury CEOs, eight graduates have become U. S. Senators, and two sit on the Supreme Court. But when a string of alumni are murdered, school officials -- looking to avoid a public relations disaster -- decide to keep the police in the dark. They discreetly ask the school's Valedictorian to solve the mystery, but he discovers that the most obvious culprit (the school's resident chemically imbalanced delinquent -- and the Valedictorian's nemesis) is being framed.
Together, the two unlikely allies uncover a massive conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of the Stansbury administration and the United States government. A riveting thriller about America's obsession with genius and the potential of youth, " Prodigy" is not only a chilling vision of the very near future, it's an authentic coming-of-age story for the 21st Century.

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There were so many things he hated about that school, but that-the way they stretched out each specimen's name (first, middle, and last all lined up together as if it were not a name but an exotic, complex mathematics equation) and stuck a formal "Mr." or "Miss" at the front-was not one of them.

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  • Title Prodigy
  • Author Dave Kalstein
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 322
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Thomas Dunne Books, New York
  • Date December 27, 2005
  • ISBN 9780312340964 / 0312340966
  • Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 5.82 x 1.11 in (21.64 x 14.78 x 2.82 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005050102
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

After getting kicked out of several prep schools, Dave Kalstein became a film writer and director working out of Hollywood. "Prodigy" is based on a short film he made in 2003. This is his first novel.


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