Dec 17, 2009
On June 4, 1968, graduation day at Melbourne College in the Midwest, Gordon Foster, valedictorian of his class, has set off a grenade, killing himself and others at the ceremony. His father, Ernest Foster, now climbs the stairs to his dead son's dormitory room—which had been his own room at the college some twenty years earlier. He will enter ahead of the police in order to piece together reasons, if possible, for his son's actions.
The room is replete with psychedelic paint, beer-can pyramids, records in orange crates, colored lights, underground books, and...
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