The chocolate war book5/22/2023 ![]() According to his “Guardian” obituary, Cormier was surprised when his agent told him The Chocolate War was a book for teenagers, but the agent had a point – adults are probably too impressionable to be allowed access to this sort of thing.įirst published in the year Nixon resigned – although a few hippie street people are the only explicitly topical reference - The Chocolate War is about the competitive pressure to meet sales targets, with corruption extending all the way to the top. I think it disturbed me more deeply than William Golding's Lord of the Flies, which I must have first read around the same time. ![]() Nor does the book slow down much after that. How often do three words do that much work? The first sentence, “They murdered him,” is meant figuratively in the context of the opening scene, an American football try-out, but is simultaneously a close-to-literal plot synopsis. I still don't know if Catholic schools on the East Coast are actually like this. I was a pre-teen then, and I'd never been to America, so the whole American context of the book was strange to me. ![]() This book blew me away when I first read it in the late 1970s. ![]()
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