A Darkening Green
Notes on Harvard, the 1950s, and the End of Innocence
This is a book about the end of childhood. Much of it is drawn directly from a diary the author kept while he was a bright but insecure freshman at Harvard in the 1950s. From these pages emerges a precise description of the raw, half-understood experience of late adolescence-the anguish and arguments, the rivalry and anxiety about sex, the facile cynicism and desperate fumblings for purpose, the bull sessions held late at night-just as Peter Prescott recorded them only hours after the event. These diary excerpts are contained in a narrative that examines that freshman experience from a vantage point of twenty years. Thus, we are able to look…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-351-53571-7
- EAN: 9781351535717
- Produktnummer: 25608504
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 647 KB
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