American Youth Paperback / softback
by Phil Lamarche
Paperback / softback
Description
In this taut and powerful novel, a young teenager is confronted by a terrible moral dilemma following a firearms accident at his home.
Coerced by his mother to lie about his role in the incident, he finds he has nonetheless earned the admiration of a sinister group of boys at his school - calling themselves 'American Youth', they subscribe to a twisted notion of traditional, puritanical values.
As he gets sucked into their orbit, and entangled with the girlfriend of the group's leader, he struggles to hold on to a sense of right and wrong.
Set in a New England town riven by social and ideological tensions - as newcomers encroach on an old rural culture - this is a classic portrait of a boy's rites of passage in an America ill at ease with itself.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, None
- Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication Date:20/03/2008
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- ISBN:9780340938041
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, None
- Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication Date:20/03/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780340938041