An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the Second World War. Set at a boys boardi...An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the Second World War. Set at a boys boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence.