The Last of the Savages (Vintage Contemporaries)

From the bestselling author of Bright Lights, Big City and Brightness Falls comes a chronicle of a generation, as enacted by two men who represent all the passions and extremes of the class of 1969. Patrick Keane and Will Savage meet at prep school at the beginning of the explosive '60s. Over the next 30 years, they remain friends even as they pursue radically divergent destinies--and harbor secrets that defy rebellion and conformity. From the Trade Paperback edition A friendship between two men who met in an elite prep school. One is Patrick Keane, an Irish-Catholic from the working classes eager to adopt the culture of the upper classes. The other is Will Savage, a rich, upper-class Wasp in rebellion against it. By the author of Brightness Falls