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"One of the best young adult books I've read in years."--Pat Conroy
At the beginning of his junior year at a boys' boarding school, 16-year-old Alex is devastated when he fails to save a drowning friend. When questioned, Alex and his friend Glenn, who was also at the river, begin weaving their web of lies. Plagued by guilt, Alex takes refuge in the library, telling his tale in a journal he hides behind Moby-Dick. Caught in the web with Alex and Glenn is their English teacher, Miss Dovecott, fresh out of Princeton, who suspects there's more to what happened at the river when she perceives guilt in Alex's writing for class. She also sees poetic talent in Alex, which she encourages. As Alex responds to her attention, he discovers his true voice, one that goes against the boarding school bravado that Glenn embraces. When Glenn becomes convinced that Miss Dovecott is out to get them, Alex must choose between them.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Chapter 1 - Call me Is Male.
- Chapter 2 - These are all landsmen
- of week days pent up in lath and plaster-tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks.
- Chapter 3 - Are the green fields gone?
- Chapter 4 - Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
- Chapter 5 - Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!
- Chapter 6 - Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror.
- Chapter 7 - I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
- Chapter 8 - . one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
- Chapter 9 - Who ain't a slave? Tell me that.
- Chapter 10 - I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
- Chapter 11 - There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes.
- Chapter 12 - It is a damp, drizzly November in my soul.
- Chapter 13 - Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries.
- Chapter 14 - But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley.
- Chapter 15 - And I only am escaped alone to tell thee. (from the first chapter of Moby-Dick and the book of Job)
- Chapter 16 - The great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open.
- Chapter 17 - The Drama's Done. Why then here does any one step forth? -Because one did survive the wreck.
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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