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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 15, 2007
This is an effortlessly masterful novel from a legend in American letters who has spent his career chronicling the morally complex lives of New York's wealthy leisure class. Like his 1964 novel,The Rector of Justin , it's set at an elite prep school in the Northeast, and at its heart is an ugly incident involving a sexual assault in a boys' dormitory. This event ignites a dangerous conflict bet...Log In or Sign Up to Read More