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Stand Before Your God
Paul Watkins
其他書名
An American Schoolboy in England
出版Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995-03-14
主題Biography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHumor / Topic / Men, Women & Relationships
ISBN06797594179780679759416
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sbanVLi2Pi8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In this enthralling and sometimes harrowing memoir, the acclaimed author of The Promise of Light gives us a masterly companion to such classics as Brideshead Revisited and A Separate Peace. 

At the age of seven, Paul Watkins was roughly transplanted from his home in Rhode Island to England's Dragon School. He was greeted by a delegation of bullies who, in time, would become his friends and whose rules would become his own. For at Dragon, and later at Eton, "there was no middle ground. You could not go here and come out not caring one way or the other. You had to stand before your God and commit."

Here are the masters who paddle boys for small infractions and then offer them sweets; the seniors who pamper pretty favorites and subject all others to humiliating servitude; the deep friendships and sudden, devastating betrayals. Above all, here is the exhilaration of a boy discovering own capacities for learning and creativity, in a book that conveys with astonishing insight the pangs of growing up.