The Secret Integration (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Pynchon
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Short story
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Segregation or integration, Children, Tradition, Racism
- Locales: Berkshires, MA
“The Secret Integration” is the longest and most interesting of Pynchon's early stories. Set in Mingeboro, a small town in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, it concerns a group of teenage boys who have hatched a plot to disrupt the adult community and eventually to assume control of the town themselves. At the time of the story they are preparing their second annual trial run, pretending to attack the school and considering what other steps they might take.
The four boys most deeply involved are Grover Snodd, a kind of genius, an inventor whose inventions rarely...
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