All Souls (novel)
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| Author | Christine Schutt |
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Publication date | 2008 |
| Publication place | United States |
All Souls is a 2008 novel by American writer Christine Schutt. The book takes place in New York City, and follows the lives of faculty and students at the fictional Siddons School.[1]
The novel draws from Schutt's experience as a teacher at an all-girls school in Manhattan.[2] Since the book's publication, Schutt noted "types" from the school, Nightingale-Bamford, she would include if she were to rewrite it.[3]
All Souls was in part inspired by David Malouf's novel Remembering Babylon.[2] Despite perception that the novel "[pushes] the boundaries of fiction"[4] Schutt has said she did not intend for it to do so.[3]