1st Edition

A Darkening Green Notes on Harvard, the 1950s, and the End of Innocence

By Peter Prescott Copyright 2009
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
1: A Darkening Green

Biography

Peter Prescott