Exile in the kingdom
By: Robert Harnum.
Series: Hardscrabble books
Publisher: University Press of New England; UPNE
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction; Violence in adolescence -- Fiction; High school students -- Fiction; Trials (Murder) -- Fiction; Police murders -- Fiction; Assault rifles -- Fiction; Teenage boys -- Fiction; Maine -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Philip is popular at high school. A conscientious student and star of the basketball team, he lives in an affluent household and enjoys the latest in electronic marvels. He is well-liked by both his peers and his teachers. He dates one of the most popular girls in school. He is courteous. He is a model young American.".

"Philip lives with a mother he never sees, in a house owned by a man that she now despises, and he talks, once every two weeks, on the phone to his biological father. He spends a good deal of his time alone, and in silence, heating an exotic array of packaged dinners in the microwave oven, studying hard, and then winding down with a good game of DOOM or MEGADEATH, before studying hard again. He is detached, self-absorbed, disaffected.".

"Philip will soon commit an act of violence, and his trial will polarize the small New England community in which he lives."--BOOK JACKET.