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Paperback. Pub Date: June. 2007 Pages: 309 Publisher: Mariner Books Journalist Taylor Antrim's debut is a clear-eyed Examination of Hidden worlds whose Complexities and the rules CAN only BE understood the FROM INSIDE: The Insular ecosystem of boarding school; the Thorny Dynamics of fathers and sons; and the self-deluding excesses of blind ideological commitment. Dyer Martin. a new history teacher at the prestigious itton School. arrives in the fall ready to close the door on the failures of his past: a disastrous first job. a oken relationship. and acute uncertainty about his future. James. a lonely senior. just wants to make it through his last year unscathed. avoiding both the utal hazing of dorm life and the stern and unforgiving eye of his father. the school's politically radical headmaster. Ed Wolfe. Dyer and James are inescapably drawn into Wolfe's hidden agenda for i...
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TAYLOR ANTRIM is an editor at ForbesLife and a regular contributor to the New York Times and Vogue. His work has appeared in Esquire, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Village Voice, and other magazines and journals. A graduate of Stanford and of Oxford, Antrim earned his MFA from Virginia, where he held the Poe-Faulkner Fellowship.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin
- Publication date2007
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- ISBN 13 9780618756827
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