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Pontiac
Engelsk Paperback
Pontiac
Engelsk Paperback

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In the inner sanctum of an elite 1960’s boarding school, boys test their boundaries and class when they welcome an outsider.

One New England boys’ boarding school, a bastion of the WASP aristocracy, has been holding out stubbornly against pressure to diversify. Grudgingly, St. Philip’s School in New Hampshire opens its doors to its first scholarship student: young Woodrow Skaggs from Pontiac, Michigan, the tough, rough-edged son of an autoworker.

Things do not go smoothly—the world portrayed in Pontiac may be shockingly inappropriate to the readers of today. The attitudes of the St. Philip’s students toward gender and sex cruelly predict the treatment girls will receive twenty years later when many of these schools become coeducational. And yet in their awkward, often violent attempts to figure each other out, the boys of St. Philip’s also provide a window to better, more tolerant times ahead.

Told through memories, vignettes, letters, and compelling conversation, Pontiac sees journalist and author Jim Schutze bring a keen and empathetic eye to the evolutions of culture in the twentieth century.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
475
ISBN-13:
9781646053483
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1646053486
Udg. Dato:
24 okt 2024
Længde:
34mm
Bredde:
140mm
Højde:
215mm
Forlag:
Deep Vellum Publishing
Oplagsdato:
24 okt 2024
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