Good Times/Bad Times

Good Times/ Bad Times is the story of an eighteen-year-old boy groping to find himself, battling to protect a profound friendship, and manfully enduring torment – until he can endure it no longer.Peter Kilburn, son of a down-on-his-luck Hollywood actor, has been sent East to take his senior year at Gilford, a once fashionable but now decidedly second-rate New England prep school. Lonely among a pack of alien schoolboys, but proud, defiant and totally sympathetic, Peter vows to prove his worth to Gilford's forbidding headmaster, who compulsively seeks to restore to the school the honor that was so badly tarnished by scandal only a few years earlier.In Jordan Legier, a frail but charismatic young man wise beyond his years, Peter finds a warm friend. Witty, knowing and generous, Jordan shares with Peter a series of unforgettable good times, on and off the campus. But the good times are only prelude to a chain of increasingly menacing, and finally tragic, confrontations with their iron-willed headmaster, who sees in the boys relationship a perversion that in fact lingers elsewhere on the Gilford campus.Here is an novel that pulses with the warmth and laughter of the young and still honest. It is a story with strong and memorable characters, compelling episodes that unfold with steadily heightening tension, and a disarming style that speaks, with immediate and authentic conviction, to readers of all ages.-- Description from the 1968 first-edition dustjacket