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Collected in Different Seasons

Apt Pupil

A Novella in Different Seasons
Pages
512
Published
1998
Language
English

Synopsis

A teenager's morbid fascination with the Holocaust curdles into a dangerous obsession after he befriends an elderly German immigrant who turns out to be a former Nazi war criminal. Over several years, the boy's fixation on the man's past escalates from curiosity into something far more sinister and uncontrollable.

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How it reads

Prose complexity 4/10
Content warnings (3)
Graphic ViolenceGoreRacism

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