This Bennington graduate has penned a thoroughly entertaining first novel that should be required reading for parents sending children off to college. Richard Papen is a poor boy at a rich boy's school, Hampden College, in rural Vermont. Richard falls in with a secretive group of classics students who translate their professor's dark ideas into violence. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. They are a memorable team, riders both like the Irish ghosts they are able to see.
Muscular prose makes for a breath-taking journey.
Prize-winning Winton resides in Australia. The author was 24 years old when Kitchen was published to great acclaim in Japan. The novella and its companion piece, Moonlight Shadows , are tough but elegant tales about love, loss, and grief. A book about death that is ultimately a book on how to live.