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...Moore's diagnosis lies at the heart of this exciting new novel by Gabriel Fielding, who, under his real name of Alan Barnsley, is a practicing British physician. In earlier books, Brotherly Love and In the Time of Greenbloom, Author Fielding dealt with the family background of John Blaydon, a British schoolboy, and carried him through an adolescent love affair. When the girl was brutally raped and murdered by a wandering psychopath, John's sanity was saved by Horab Green-bloom, a Jewish intellectual who is for ever on the move - mentally, physically, metaphysically. But not even Greenbloom...
...soul that Greenbloom saves is that of adolescent John Blaydon, who is typical of the schoolboy in the English novel during the past 100 years-sensitive, mildly precocious, ignored by adults except when he exasperates or embarrasses them. John Blaydon does both frequently, for he is incapable of committing a transgression without being caught. When he goes swimming in the nude with nubile Victoria Blount, she almost drowns, and John is discovered by an entire house party as he sits astride her thighs applying artificial respiration. At school John is similarly arraigned by fate when a homosexual classmate slips into...