All the Castles Burned
When Owen Webb, the son of working-class parents, receives a scholarship to the prestigious Rockcastle Preparatory Academy, the mysterious and enigmatic Carson Bly, an upperclassman from a wealthy and powerful family, befriends him. Their friendship, deepened through a love of basketball, becomes an obsession for Owen, who is desperate to avoid the growing trouble at home between his parents. When Owen's father is arrested for a shocking and unexpected crime, his family is torn apart, and Owen's anger and fear are carefully manipulated by Carson's mercurial and increasingly dangerous personality. Owen, who has fallen in love with Carson's beautiful but troubled sister, quickly finds himself caught up in a complex web of lies that threatens his once-promising future.
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Book details
- Author
- Michael Nye
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Fiction › Coming of Age
Fiction › Literary - Topics
- coming of age · prep school · class divide · friendship obsession · basketball · working class protagonist · dysfunctional family
- ISBN-13
- 9781683367604 (Paperback)9781683367611 (Hardcover)
About the author
MICHAEL NYE is the author of two story collections, All the Castles Burned and Strategies Against Extinction. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Kenyon Review, Epoch, Boulevard, Cincinnati Review, Crab Orchard Review, and several other journals.
Nye’s work has been a finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in fiction and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He holds a BA in English Literature from Ohio State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Michael lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife.