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At a Bible-focused summer camp for boys, their obsessive need to be "the best" transforms a group of campers into boys obsessed with revenge
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Tryon ( The Other ) sends Leo Joaquim, his orphaned 13-year-old hero, to Camp Friend-Indeed in Connecticut in the summer of 1938, and does his best to show that the behavior of the kids at this American-as-apple-pie camp parallels that of the Nazi movement in Germany. Gifted, troubled and therefore "different," Leo arouses the animosity of his gung-ho and intolerant counselor Reece Hartsig. Leo also makes some friends in his bunk group and gets the sympathetic attention of Fritz Auerbach, an Austrian refugee who is head of Arts & Crafts, as well as of warmhearted women like the camp director's wife and a rich neighbor of the camp. But in the main Leo meets with incomprehension and adolescent meanness. The story is an intimate, detailed one of camp life and its vicissitudes until the political parallels become overt, the human storm breaks and tragedy takes over. If this sounds interesting, it is not. It is good-hearted, prosy, plodding and terribly familiar. 75,000 first printing; Literary Guild dual main selection.
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Although the publishers apparently intend to aim this novel at the horror market, the only horror it contains is people's inhumanity to one another--or in this case, boys' inhumanity to the oddball. Leo Joaquim, living at an orphanage, is given the miracle of a summer at Camp Friend Indeed. From the first, though, he doesn't fit in. Clumsy at sports, preferring to play the violin and collect nature specimens, he soon becomes the object of the other campers scorn; and gradually the healthy competitiveness encouraged by Friend Indeed degenerates into an endurance test between Leo and Reece Hartzig, the camp's spoiled golden-boy counselor. Leo's mind holds a tragic secret, and as the campers' pranks become more vicious and sadistic, his memories threaten to erupt in uncontrollable violence. This Literary Guild dual main selection, by the author of The Other and Harvest Home , will be in demand at public libraries.
- A.M.B. Amantia, Population Crisis Committee Lib., Washington,
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- A.M.B. Amantia, Population Crisis Committee Lib., Washington,
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- PublisherHodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0340513330
- ISBN 13 9780340513330
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Set in Connecticut during the summer of 1938, a cabin full of athletic boys in the Bible camp Friend-Indeed eagerly await their final member. Instead of a great baseball player they get Leo Joaquim, who can barely throw a ball. Their disappointment turns to hatred which brings evil to the camp. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR006147120
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Fred Marcellino (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, some slight yellowing to page block, not price clipped (£13.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 320pp. At a Bible focused summer camp for boys in 1938, obsessive competition transforms a group of young campers into murderous savages bent on revenge. By American film actor turned gothic horror novelist Thomas Tryon (1926-91). Seller Inventory # 009093
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