His father has become angry at everyone and finds the world to be a very unsafe place, and though he would deny it vigorously, Marcus is exactly like his father. And why is he there and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Yet, despite the particular circumstances of the novel, set during the Korean War, it tells a story as universal and as timeless as human coming-of-age. I hated that part. Wall Street Journal Online 12 Sept.
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