who subjects him to endless petty cruelties for daring to step above his station
but also her mothers and her own
from a writer hailed as the West Coast's Richard Pricea mesmerizing epic of crime and opportunity
And then all hell breaks loose when murder returns to Champton in the form of a shocking ritualistic killing
of his two best friends: Frank Slattery
Afterlife Allan Mallinson who subjects him to endlessThe seventies. Summer. Four students in a cottage in the middle of nowhere. Two young American women, one hell bent on destruction. Alcohol, LSD, sex, jealousy, infidelity and poetry. At the end of the summer, one of the four students will be dead, and another will be destroyed by his inability to let go of past memories, guilt and bitterness.