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Scholarship  [message #67204] Mon, 03 December 2012 11:16 Go to previous message
timmy

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I have recently read Scholarship, by Ian John Copeland and found it to be, somehow, far more than a simple school story. I shan't give away the plot, not at all. Our hero, Pip, we meet at some 8 summers, and leave him at some 14. By this you may realise that we are not speaking of a sexual romp. Indeed though there is sex in it, and though the author doesn't 'cut to waves breaking on the beach', the sex is not erotic, the story is fiction, not friction, and the plot is all.

We see the growing relationship between boys, mainly those on the cusp of puberty, though the relationships do start earlier as pure friendships. The school is an English Prep School, though the Cornish would dispute whether Cornwall is in England at all. The boys all board. The school is their main home; indeed, there is no life outside school. Family life hardly intrudes. The boys are real boys. I can see them all, and see which I woudl be friends with and which not.

I am enquiring gently of Ian whether he would appreciate the story's further exposure by being published here as well as in his own home for it. The answer depends upon his plans for his current and future writing as well as whether he sees this site as appropriate for this tale.

[Updated on: Mon, 03 December 2012 13:48]



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