Bless the Beasts and Children (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Glendon Swarthout
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: The late 1960’s
- Setting: Arizona
- Principal Characters: Cotton, Goodenow, Lally 2, Lally 1, Teft, Shecker
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s
- Locales: Arizona
The Novel
Bless the Beasts and Children is one of Glendon Swarthout’s most successful novels, though it is often thought of as a book for adolescents as well as about adolescents. The novel tells the story of a group of boys who turn from sniveling, cowardly behavior to heroic action in order to rescue a herd of buffalo. Terribly troubled, the boys have been “made strange” or “paranoid” by their parents, who are representative of an American culture that shapes its citizens according to cultural ideals of wealth and power for men and beauty for women, ideals...
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