1st edn. Hardback in d/w. 500pp. Plum cloth boards with silver titles to spine. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page, otherwise FINE in VG unclipped d/w (one closed tear, 15mm, to base of spine of rear cover). A very rare and unsettling book. Signed by Iain Mackenzie-Blair to title page.1941 Seven apprehensive thirteen year-olds enter a famous Public School as members of Ansell's, the most prestigious House. The reader is inducted with them into claustrophobic, arcane, degenerated traditions which educate them intellectually, morally and sexually into ruined senior boys who precipitate the shocking tragedy and its shameful aftermath which still haunts the narrator. Frighteningly convincing, uncompromisingly explicit, this portrayal of an outwardly revered institution inwardly corrupt with misplaced loyalty, complacency and arrogance, makes us ponder the integrity of those who, educated like these boys, dominated Govemment and the Establishment during the last decades of the twentieth century.

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Title

School Story.

Publisher

Wester Ross Three Cats Press

Publication Date

2005

Language

English

ISBN 10

0954763017

ISBN 13

9780954763015

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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Signed by Author(s)

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