Pontiac

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In the inner sanctum of an elite boarding school, boys test their boundaries and class when they welcome an outsider.

In 1960, St. Philips School, a famously exclusive boys boarding school, grudgingly admits its first scholarship student. As the nursery to Americas aristocracy, St. Philips has no notion what to expect of 13-year-old Woodrow Scaggs, the white son of an autoworker. Will he even eat with knife and fork Woodrow believes that if any boy calls him a certain name, he must fight him to the death. Of course, he is called that name on his first night.

In Pontiac, boys equally stupid and equally wonderful in spite of class differences, weave their own lost-boys culture and form life-lasting bonds.

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Jim Schutze was born in 1946, spent his childhood in Ann Arbor, Michigan and attended high school at St. Pauls School in Concord, New Hampshire, after which he was an automobile assembly-line worker in Detroit for six years. He is retired from a decades-long career as a newspaper columnist writing about local politics in Dallas, Texas. Schutzes book on race relations in Dallas, The Accommodation, was pulled from the presses by a local publisher and suppressed in 1986. Re-published 35 years later in the wake of the George Floyd murder, it was selected for a citywide reading program in Dallas.