The Book of Skulls | Characters
Silverberg's quartet of young rebels are a group of ethnically varied students: Eli, the philosophic mind, is Jewish and introspective; Oliver, a Midwestern Protestant with athletic talent, is something of an extrovert but with hidden insecurities; Timothy is a spoiled rich youth; and Ned, the fourth, who longs to be an artist, is a homosexual and excessively aesthetic in his approach to life. These characterizations seem a deliberate effort to make the protagonists a cross section of American youth in the early 1970's. And, since all participate in a kind of unholy crime, all are more or...
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