Antonio Felaco Felaco itibaren Ansonia, OH 45303, USA
I'm going to jump out on a limb and call this the original modern coming of age prep school story. Catcher in the Rye is more entertaining, fluid and coherent, Call It Sleep was more heartbreaking, but this was published decades before either of them. It's also deliciously ironic when the post-WWI protagonist reflects that his generation is lost for being born "after all the wars have been fought". It does not diminish the effect of the book to read that section now, somehow it manages to deepen it-- as if every generation thinks it is born out of place with nothing to fight or believe in and part of growing up is perhaps coming to terms with this.