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Things as they are

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  • "" ... one of the most perfect books I have ever read. In an American Eden, a boy grows up, experiencing glory and horror and sin, with the suffering and sorrow it entails ..." Anne Fremantle " ... poignantly renders the 'confusion called childhood' -- its fears and terrors, its half-innocent delights, its intimations realized beyond words -- and renders all this with a lyric passion ..." Winfield Townley Scott."
  • ""Richard is a young boy growing up in turn-of-the-century upstate New York, sheltered in a loving Catholic family. His happy world consists largely of illusions. These are shattered as Richard learns about "things as they are"--a remorseless succession of encounters with the casual brutality of schoolboys, the faithlessness of adults, the silence of God, and the cruelty in his own heart. Yet Paul Horgan finds courage and beauty in the ruins of Richard's dream world. Hope is also part of "things as they are," and Horgan's subtle, powerful vision makes this classic tale of lost innocence a novel that resonates deeply in the soul" -- back cover."

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  • "Autobiographical fiction"
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Things as they are : (Roman)"
  • "Things as they are"
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