Candles in the Window, by Karl Larew
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Candles in the Window, by Karl Larew
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This volume is a somewhat revised version of the 1999 edition. It is a nostalgic, but more especially a psychological, look and the love/sex lives of college students in the 1950s, set in the University of Connecticut. A small number of students are drawn together by the love of a beautiful, but enigmatic, girl nicknamed "Silky," famous for her golden hair and her theater acting, as well as for her entrancing personality. A counterpoint to the students' story comes in the form a young priest with homosexual urges.
Candles in the Window, by Karl Larew- Amazon Sales Rank: #2657908 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-06-30
- Released on: 2015-06-30
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Review "...brilliantly told in a non-traditional manner...cleverly documents the contradictory and conservative morals of the 1950s...they contend with the new advents just on the horizon: civil rights, war protests, and the sexual revolution." --Chanticleer Book Reviews"Larew, a lively and entertaining stylist, cuts at once to the hormones.... Meet Silky, a standout her magnetism..." -- James Bready, Baltimore Sun, January 23, 2000
From the Inside Flap Decades later, thinking about his daughter's approaching college years, Roger Danton tried to remember his own freshman days at the University of Connecticut. He recalled his first meeting with Mark, his roommate. Most of all, Roger puzzled over the memory of Mark's girlfriend. All freshman year, so much in their lives, and those of their friends, had revolved around that one special girl--such a strange, beautiful person, yet she couldn't keep her name straight, not to mention her life story. Friends sometimes talked about the campus priest's sex life--and what "Silky" had meant to them all. That was the name most of them had known her by--Mark's girl. But what happened between her and the priest?
About the Author Karl G. Larew, Ph.D., graduated from UCONN in 1959. He is now a retired professor of history at Towson University. He lives with his wife and cat in southern Pennsylvania.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. An accurate portrayal of college life a half-century ago By J. Chambers The fictional story was about one year in the life of a group of students at the University of Connecticut ("UConn") during the late 1950s, although the story could have been set in just about any secular university in the United States during that era. The author, Karl Larew, has perfectly captured the feel of college life in the 1950s. It was a tranquil setting, almost idyllic, considering the activism that would erupt on college campuses a decade later with civil rights marches and anti-war demonstrations. It was a time when Cokes were 5¢, people travelled by train, male students were required to take ROTC, girls' dormitories (but not the boys') had strict curfews, girls were not allowed to wear pants on campus, and music came from radios and phonograph players.The story revolved around a group of about a dozen students as they explored the boundaries of their newfound freedom away from their parents. One student in particular, Susan Schreiber, nicknamed "Silky," was the center of attention for both the male and female students. Her beauty and charisma made her one of the most popular students on campus. She was also a talented actress, being one of the standouts in the drama department's annual play.For many students, it was a time for sexual experimentation, when sex and love were synonymous for some students, while others learned differently, sometimes painfully. As young people away from home for the first time, the students exchanged views about subjects such as life, religion, and love. Alcohol fuelled many late-night debates. Before the end of the school year, students would face a tragedy that shook the campus to its core and affected many of the students long after they had graduated and gone out into the world.The principal characters were Roger Danton, Mark Hampton, Dick Howard, Ruth Kline, Jan Daley, Dom Amato, Mario Di Lonzo, Rosalyn Chirowicz, and Susan Schreiber, known to everyone by her nickname "Silky." Other characters who play major roles are the chaplain, Father McKiernan; and Mr. Chauncey, the Drama Director. The characters were real flesh-and-blood people. The author did a splendid job of getting inside the students' minds and making the characters come alive. Dialogues were realistic and brought back memories of my own college experience in the mid-1960s.Editing was good, and I found very few typos. The Kindle formatting was also good, with a few slight errors, but not enough to affect my enjoyment of the story.The bottom line: I enjoyed "Candles in the Window" very much. It was a well-written, nostalgic look at college life a half-century ago. It was a simpler time, but I imagine that young people today still grapple with many of the issues that their parents and grandparents faced in previous decades.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. subtly ambitious By Lyn Alexander Before starting into any novel I always read everything around it: the title page, acknowledgments, biographical information, dedication page - it's all related information, and in most cases it explains much before you start, and props up the work, like legs on a table. Without the legs the table would still function: but at a different level.This is a very ambitious novel written by a professor of history from the distance of maturity and experience; but it was written about university students who are young, naive, driven by hormonal energies, ready to attack the world but not at all certain how to go at it. Ambitious because it is written from the thoughts and observations of eight students, yet at the same time written from the distance of much greater understanding. Ambitious because it is written in their language, crass, foulmouthed, profane, rash, thoughtful, searching, tender, vulnerable, sometimes really stupid, often surprisingly wise - it covers the gamut of juvenile expression.On the surface, this is a novel about sexual experimentation, discovery, foolishness, suspicion, loss and gain, friendship, and all the faces of love, even touching lightly on lesbos, homos, and digging into everything between. On a deeper level, it is a complex coming-of-age story. At its most basic, it is a remembrance of things past. It is perhaps a remembrance of all our pasts, whether or not we ever went to university.So Candles in the Window is many things on many levels and should be read with that awareness.Five stars for ambition.I am drawn to the work of Karl Larew because he writes without artifice with an American apple pie sincerity and enthusiasm that often conceals unexpected depth.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. This was okay . . . . . By Hazel I had read a few pages and then started reading a different book. Seemed to be hard to get all the characters down. So many different people at once. What grabbed my interest was the fact that it was in the 50's. I obviously went back and completed the book, but I felt it was a little slow. I feel like any of the characters really came to life. I just continued to see how it ended.
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