A Jest of GodA Jest of God
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Book, 1966
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Rachel MacKenzie has let fourteen years slip by since her father's death forced her to leave college and return home to teach grade school. Trapped by a tyrannically demanding mother, Rachel must suffer daily assaults on her self-respect: from the yearly classes of youngsters, who give her no more than enforced attention, forgetting her as they move on, while she longs for a child of her own; from the school principal, who knowingly takes advantage of her insecurities; from the older fellow teacher, who insinuates herself ambiguously into Rachel's life. Repressed and self-conscious, she has reached that crucial stage in her emotional life when she must either explode or retreat into private fantasy. But in her thirty-fourth summer quite unexpectedly she finds release in a joyous but baffling affair, through which her knowledge of herself as a woman capable of using the thwarted sexual energies of her nature provides her with the strength to free herself.
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