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The End Of Boys (Paperback)
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The End Of Boys (Paperback)
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List price R448
Loot Price R391
Discovery Miles 3 910
You Save R57 (13%)
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Peter Hoffmeister was a nervous child who ran away repeatedly and
bit his fingernails until they bled. Home-schooled until the age of
fourteen, he had only to deal with his parents and siblings on a
daily basis, yet even that sometimes proved too much for him. Over
the years, he watched his mother disintegrate into her own form of
mania, while his father--a scholar and doctor who had once played
semi-pro baseball--was strict and pushed Peter particularly hard.
He wanted only the best from his son but in the process taught
Peter to expect only the worst from himself. In the midst of his
chaotic home life, Peter began to hear a voice--an insistent,
monotone that would periodically dictate his actions. When Peter
finally entered public school he started to break free from his
father's control--only to fall sway to the voice more and more. His
obsessive-compulsive behavior morphed into ruthless competition in
sports and, ultimately, into lies, violence, and drugs. The End of
Boys follows Hoffmeister to the very brink of sanity and back, in a
harrowing and heartbreaking account of the trauma of adolescence
and the redemption available to us all, if only we choose to find
it.
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