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Paul Sharon, the character about whom the novel is built, is completely human; his healthy vigor, his disgust at shani and hypoerisy, his feeling for beauty, and his strong passion are contested against an inability to come to any decision, much as strength and weakness are opposed in most people. He is an ingenious, attractive lad whose life has been ruined by family heritage, an abnormal childhood, and his chronic incapacity to cope with the situations he comes up against, "Riverhead" deals with the metamorphosis of this last characteristic...