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At St. Stephen's Academy, the students are on the verge of revolt. As the younger guys plot an insurrection, the old ones are preoccupied with sneaking out of bounds, thrashing each other, tearing each other's clothes off - or some combination of the three. Morgan Wilberforce, for just one, can't take it any more. Everything Wilberforce details converts to disaster in his needy attempts to battle off desire, boredom, and angst. He knocks himself unconscious tackling the unattainable Spaulding on the rugby pitch, his headmaster detests him for offences committed years ago, and even his closest friends are subjecting him to physical tortures normally reserved for juniors. When an accident at the boarding university leaves him with an increase of hurting than he may have fathomed, he detects himself alone and adrift. Plus the workaday charms of cricket practice, Victorian pornography, canings from classmates, and fumbling with the pub keeper's child can do only a lot to fix a damaged body and a restless center. Stylishly inventive, H. S. Cross has built an imaginative, ritualistic world of men and guys narrowly restricted by custom and expert. Wilberforce is an indelible portrait of a young man caught between lust and cruelty, grief and God, frustrated love and abject longing - and a travel de force that heralds the arrival of a brilliant new novelist.
