The Palace Thief: Stories
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ISBN: 0312307314 / Publisher: Picador, November 2002
A collection of novellas features characters who are trying to understand why their lives have taken such surprising turns.
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Academy Award winner Kevin Kline stars in the adaptation of the title story in this collection in a Universal Pictures release directed by Michael Hoffman (Restoration)The Palace Thief is the story of a dedicated and inspiring classics professor at an elite prep school where an encounter with a student, the son of a powerful senator, inexorably alters his life. Forty-one years later at a reunion of his students, he is faced with the fear that he may have failed the most important challenge of his life—to have been a great teacher.
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