Overview
A young intellectual is called into active duty and receives a rude awakening to the realities of military service. An Ivy League graduate is pressed casually into Intelligence work and encounters himself mirrored in his new-found friend--a Russian spy. An arrogant professor finds himself unable to resist the unschooled energy of a spunky female student. A lonely apprentice at a New York law firm is flattered by the attentions of two mentors--one a senior partner, the other an enchantingly extravagant woman--whose sophistication make his own naivety painfully apparent. Each story in this luminous quartet explorers an emotional turning-point, either toward or away from self-knowledge--that moment when a young man of privilege suddenly finds his carefully nurtured superiority crumbling. In Casey's beautiful prose, the experiences of these solitary narrators resonate with remarkable power.
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- ISBN-13: 9780375719301
- ISBN-10: 037571930X
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: December 2005
- Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.28 x 0.58 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.52 pounds
- Page Count: 224
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