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I’m always in such awe at how Robert Cormier not only so perfectly defines adolescence with his stories, but reaches into the adult, and revives those long forgotten feelings.

Here, though the setting is a private catholic high school, we have an excellent metaphor for how society functions, the symbiosis of criminal and government.

Read if you want to get a worthy glimpse behind those oh so smooth personas…