A Darkening Green: Notes on Harvard, the 1950s, and the End of Innocence

by Peter S. Prescott

Book Overview

This is a book about the end of childhood. Much of it is drawn directly from a diary the author kept while he was a bright but insecure freshman at Harvard in the 1950s. From these pages emerges a precise description of the raw, half-understood experience of late adolescence-the anguish and arguments, the rivalry and anxiety about sex, the facile cynicism and desperate fumblings for purpose, the bull sessions held late at night-just as Peter Prescott...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412810094
• ISBN13: 9781412810098
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Darkening Green...Good book...

I read this a few years ago, and i loved it. It has an offbeat sense of humor and a great plot. The character development was done wonderfully. If you can get a hold on a copy of this book...DO IT!!!