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A Darkening Green - Notes on Harvard, the 1950s, and the End of Innocence (Hardcover)
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A Darkening Green - Notes on Harvard, the 1950s, and the End of Innocence (Hardcover)
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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 at
the past with a double perspective: The exact record, unclouded by
memory or nostalgia, of what was said and done is set in a
structure that reveals the form of the experience. The result is an
ironic, witty, and often moving book. Writing with some compassion
and even more asperity, Peter S. Prescott not only captures the
conflicts and emotions of a single year, but probes beneath the
surface of memory to explore certain tribal customs and rites of
passage as they are played out in the classrooms and living
quarters of the college. A few famous people-T. S. Eliot and Edith
Sitwell among them-play brief parts in this chronicle, but young
Prescott's attention was primarily engaged in his struggle with his
extravagant roommates and an assortment of eccentric
undergraduates.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
October 2017 |
First published: |
2009 |
Authors: |
Peter Prescott
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
232 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-138-51816-2 |
Categories: |
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Humanities >
History >
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General
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LSN: |
1-138-51816-6 |
Barcode: |
9781138518162 |
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