What I Was
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Book Description
In 1962, a 16-year-old boy is dropped off by his father at a boarding school on the windswept coast of East Anglia. It is a model of its kind-the rooms are freezing, the food is disgusting, the older boys are sadistic, and the masters are the ineffectual, damaged castoffs of a dying Empire.
But the boy is used to the drill and well practiced at detached dreaming, imagining himself someone ... More
But the boy is used to the drill and well practiced at detached dreaming, imagining himself someone ... More
Book Information
Publisher | Doubleday Canada Limited |
Binding | Hardcover (24 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 224 |
ISBN-10 | 0385663978 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0385663977 |
Publication Date | 01/29/2008 |
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3/21/2008 John O'Rourke said:
tags: I recommend, I read
Author Meg Rosoff has come up with another thoughtful YA novel, "What I Was." Generally, boys are not known for intensity of emotional relationships with other boys, without becoming the story of an overtly gay, perhaps one-sided or not, relationship. "What I Was" never commits to identifying the pr... more
tags: I recommend, I read
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