A haunting novel of obsession and betrayal, told from the perspective of a man who may have committed a horrific act of violence. Arthur Winthrop is a headmaster at an elite school. When he is arrested for an act that is incredibly out of character, he confesses to a much more serious crime.
Margaret Greeve is an outwardly accomplished and finished person: a wit, an intellectual, and the wife of the headmaster of a well-established boarding school for boys.
She found the fox on the side of the road. She almost didn't see it. She almost walked right past it. But out of the corner of her eye she saw this shadowy form lying on the ground, and when she went to it, she saw that it was a small ...
With a nod to Romeo and Juliet and reminiscent of Endless Love, Thomas Christopher Greene tells the story of two young lovers and their journey to find perfection in each other's arms.
John Greeve is the headmaster.
Told from altering points of view through time, If I Forget You tells the story of Henry Gold, a poet whose rise from poverty embodies the American dream, and Margot Fuller, the daughter of a prominent, wealthy family, and their unlikely, ...
The Headmaster's Wife: A Gregor Demarkian Novel
Blessed with intriguingly flawed characters moving through a richly drawn historical and physical landscape, The Headmaster's Wager is a riveting story of love, betrayal and sacrifice.
With precisely controlled, deceptively subtle storytelling, The Headmaster Ritual is an insightful and captivating examination of the halting, complicated course young men must chart to shake off the influence of fathers—and father ...
John McPhee portrays a remarkable man "at the near end of a skein of magnanimous despots who...created enduring schools through their own individual energies, maintained them under their own absolute rule, and left them forever imprinted ...
Compelling and poignant, this is the finest work yet from one of best contemporary American novelists. Stonewall Inn Editions