And admiration isn’t the same as trust.Īs their friendship spirals into an all-consuming intimacy, Paul is desperate to protect their precarious bond, even as it becomes clear that pressures from the outside world are nothing compared with the brutality they are capable o. But as charismatic as he can choose to be, Julian is also volatile and capriciously cruel. He idolizes his friend for his magnetic confidence. Paul sees the wealthy, effortlessly charming Julian as his sole intellectual equal - an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. A talented artist, Paul is sensitive and agonizingly insecure, incomprehensible to his working-class family, and desolate with grief over his father’s recent death. When Paul and Julian meet as university freshmen in early 1970s Pittsburgh, they are immediately drawn to one another. Here is a brief synopsis of the book, according to Goodreads:
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