Late Bloomer: A Memoir of School Days
$24.95HALF A CENTURY ON, Nat Bickford revisits the predatory advances of two boarding school masters, one at Phillips Exeter, the other at Williston Academy, whose provocative behaviorāsadistic in one case, tragic in the otherāviolated the genteel codes of prep school life in the late 1950s. Less cynical than Catcher in the Rye and more disturbing than A Separate Peace, the narrative benefits from the distance.