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The Headmaster Ritual.(Brief article)(Book review)
Set at an exclusive Massachusetts private school, this debut novel addresses the angst--both teen-age and adult--that percolates on a prep-school campus. Dyer Martin, in crisis after a disastrous foray into real estate, has taken a position in the history department; one of his pupils, James, is the timid son of the formidable headmaster, once tenured at Harvard and now determined to shake up the conservative and complacent ...
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