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first edition
1960 · New York
by Knowles, John
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1960. First printing. Near fine in very good jacket.. First American edition, in the more common second-issue dust jacket featuring blurbs of acclaim from the likes of E.M. Forster and Truman Capote. A beautiful copy of Knowles's classic of an uneasy coming-of-age, set at a boys' boarding school among the desperately carefree 16-year-olds of 1942: too young, still, to be drafted into the war outside; too old to evade the responsibilities and consequences that follow from the breaking of their fraught and fragile private bonds. The book that set E.M. Forster off "thinking of the Philoctetes of Sophocles," in a line which (truncated)
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