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144 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780099284796
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Publication date: 11 March 1999
Description
A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer,...
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144 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780099284796
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Publication date: 11 March 1999
Description
A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer,...