The Last of the Savages: rejacketed

by JayMcInerney (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2010

  $3.25

  When staid Patrick Keane meets his roommate at a New England boarding-school, a strange, enduring friendship of extremes is forged. For Will Savage, privileged white son of the Mississippi Delta, has embraced black soul music and adopted its raw, searing anthems as his own. Spanning three decades from the turbulent sixties to the nineties, The Last of the Savages is a profound exploration of interracial love, music, family, honour and friendship.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $30.18

  The arrival of rebellious Will Savage at his New England prep school in the mid-sixties was watched in awed fascination by Patrick, his Irish-Catholic roommate with aspirations to all that the Ivy League and convention had to offer. Theirs is an unusual friendship that unfolds across the decades, through Will's defiant marriage to a beautiful black woman, and Patrick's studied course of upward mobility, in an abiding portrait of male intimacy that is funny, intimate and unforgettable.

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  Hardcover
  1996

  $3.25

  This is the story of the friendship between two very different men who meet at prep school. While Patrick conforms to Ivy League tradition, Will defies his family and embarks on a love affair with black soul music. The novel embraces race relations and American social changes.