MITCHELL, W.O. - How I Spent My Summer Holidays - (Hardcover in Wrapper)

Book and wrapper very good - Gift message inside.   >>>    When  How I Spent My Summer Holidays  was first published in 1981 a Western reviewer wrote: If  Who Has Seen the Wind  told the story of a young boys coming to terms with death,  How I Spent My Summer Holidays  tells of a young mans attempt to come to terms with his own sexuality and that of the world around him.   The twelve-year-old young man is Hugh, and in small-town Saskatchewan it is the hot summer of 1924. When Hugh and his friends dig a secret cave out on the Prairie, they soon find it occupied by an escaped patient from the mental hospital. Defying the adult world, the boys become involved with a former war hero and current rum-runner, King Motherwell, in sheltering and feeding the runaway. When passions aroused by sex explode into murder, Hugh leaves his boyhood behind him for ever.