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Synopsis
At a New England boarding school during World War II, a group of boys discover the depths of human nature among themselves, and the evil that even the most innocent is capable of.
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before."
Industry Reviews
"A quietly vital and cleanly written novel that moves, page by page, toward a most interesting target."
Book Jacket - Truman Capote
"I think it is the best-written, best-designed and most moving novel I have read in many years. Beginning with a tiny incident among ordinary boys, it ends by being as deep and as big as evil itself. As I read the story I had the feeling of climbing a tower and looking at wider and wider prospects of human nature, each bleaker than the last....The characters are real, the tragedy is inevitable, the setting is perfectly chosen. I shall recommend this book to anyone who tells me that the novel is no longer a work of art."
Book Jacket - Audrey Menen
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