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Five Recent Campus Novels You Need To Read

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Article
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2018/12/17/five-recent-campus-novels-you-need-to-read/#3c49b6897595
Journal
Forbes
Issued Date
December 17, 2018
Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED STATES
City
New Jersey
Book
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Writer
R. O. Kwon

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  • R.O.Kwon
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  • Occupation : Writer
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The Incendiaies by R.O.Kwon follows three Korean-Americans who meet at a prestigious liberal arts college. Will is a shy, formerly devout evangelical.  He falls in love with Phoebe, a party girl with a traumatic past she struggles to repress. They fall under the spell of John Leal, an eccentric, messianic figure who inspires a cult of fervently gullible undergraduates. This is a story about religious fanaticism, the perversion of faith into something more dangerous. All the characters deceive one other about their past and present lives, echoing the malevolent arrogance captured so well by Donna Tartt in her campus novel, The Secret History. Kwon’s style is spare, the narration jumps across time and characters, but this debut novel is a powerful examination of the madness of extremism.  

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