W.O. Mitchell
When, How I Spent My Summer Holidays, was first published in 1981 a Western reviewer wrote: â€œIf ,Who Has Seen the Wind, told the story of a young boyâ€™s coming to terms with death, ,How I Spent My Summer Holidays, tells of a young manâ€™s attempt to come to terms with his own sexuality and that of the world around him.â€,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.
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How I Spent My Summer Holidays