Stand Before Your God - Hardcover

Watkins, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679420568 ISBN 13: 9780679420569

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1994

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Book by Watkins Paul

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The author of Night Over Day Over Night recalls the fourteen years he spent at Britain's greatest boarding schools, Dragon and Eton, and how he came of age there. 15,000 first printing. Tour.

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f seven, Paul Watkins was roughly transplanted from his home in Rhode Island to England's Dragon School. He was greeted by a delegation of bullies who, in time, would become his friends and whose rules would become his own. For at Dragon, and later at Eton, "there was no middle ground. You could not go here and come out not caring one way or the other. You had to stand before your God and commit."

In this enthralling and sometimes harrowing memoir, the acclaimed author of The Promise of Light gives us a masterly companion to such classics as Brideshead Revisited and A Separate Peace. Here are the masters who paddle boys for small infractions and then offer them sweets; the seniors who pamper pretty favorites and subject all others to humiliating servitude; the deep friendships and sudden, devastating betrayals. Above all, here is the exhilaration of a boy discovering own capacities for learning and creativity, in a book that conveys with astonishing insight the pangs of growing

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0679420568
• ISBN 13: 9780679420569
• Einband: Tapa dura