One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is the story of a friendship between two 16-year-old boys in an American boarding school - one a natural athlete and the other a scholar. Their different temperaments cause tensions that lead to tragedy.
This feels very much of its time. The kind of morally prescriptive mindset that prevailed when my parents were young, and thus prevailed when I was young, full of great life lessons— have fun and you’ll die! It’s an anxiety I’m still trying to excise from myself. So yeah, I would’ve hated it in 8th grade, and I’m not much more kind to it now. There are better boarding school books that handle coming-of-age, that’s for sure.
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