Joint '72 (eBook)

...a novel about coming of age-twice

Michael Clark (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
348 Seiten
DeCon Arts LLC (Verlag)
978-1-7326693-2-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Dub Wiggins faces a dilemma: The military boarding school where he studied for four years, and has taught for more than twenty, wants him gone unless he toes the line for the autocratic headmaster who has ruled the institution for decades.But Dub is a contrarian. Conforming to cliched norms makes him physically ill, so he devises a plan. He will play the good sheep, but only long enough to retaliate against the school with a scandalous memoir of the physical, mental, and sexual predation he suffered as a student capped off with the real story of a murder committed by one of his classmates if only he can remember exactly how it happened.When Dub was a student, brutality and betrayal derailed his first coming of age. But in his quest to bury the school in scandal, he finds a chance for redemption: He can either honor a solemn debt of friendship, or bring a murderer to justice.He cannot do both, yet his reclamation hangs in the balance.

Inhalt

Prologue • ix

1 ~ It’s a Big Hill • 1

2 ~ The Shepherd in the Pasture • 18

3 ~ The Plan • 28

4 ~ The Plot Thickens • 41

5 ~ Louella Delany • 54

6 ~ Journal: Freshmen, Part One • 66

7 ~ Family for Dinner • 82

8 ~ Journal: Freshmen, Part Two • 91

9 ~ A Meeting and a Proposal • 112

10 ~ Journal: Freshmen, Part Three • 127

11 ~ The Winter of Our Content • 146

12 ~ Journal: Sophomores, Part One • 160

13 ~ Debating Sex and War • 179

14 ~ Journal: Sophomores, Part Two • 202

15 ~ The Ides of March • 214

16 ~ Journal: Sophomores, Part Three • 231

17 ~ Goose and Gander • 241

18 ~ Journal: Sophomores, Part Four • 250

19 ~ The Reckoning • 269

20 ~ Journal: Juniors • 286

21 ~ Finally, I Get to Go Home • 303

Acknowledgments • 323

About the Author • 325

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.11.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 1960s • 1970s • anti-war • Boarding School • Coming of Age • Harpers Ferry • Kent State • literary fiction • Military School • Protest • Rebellion • vietnam era
• ISBN-10: 1-7326693-2-5 / 1732669325
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7326693-2-1 / 9781732669321