Wow it was a smaller book, but was really good. One of the reviewers on the cover compared Mr. Knowles to Salinger. I could definitely see a similarity to Catcher and the Rye, more in the way the book "felt".
It was a coming of age story of two boys in a "prep" school in the Northeast during WWII. As someone that did not live through that time parts were hard to really "get" what the main character talks about feeling. I guess that is also true since I am a female and this comes from a man's side.
Overall though I really enjoyed it and it has some parallels now with the Iraq war and boys going over and being killed. Its easy sometimes to forget that these young men are still in so many ways boys.
Grade: B+
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