The confession of a child of the century by Samuel Heather

It begins fine and familiar and hokey and breezy. Heather, son of the Episcopal Bishop of Kansas City, arrives at Harvard in the late Forties, reads books, sleeps with a girl, and is generally unhappy. The confessional habit of the older Heather looking back on all this is not one that encourages us to take it very seriously. --NY Review of Books.