Karl's Reviews > Odd Man Out

James Newman's book "Odd Man Out" is the coming of age story of a fifteen year old boy and the events that occurred during several weeks at a summer camp named "The Black Mountain Camp For Boys" during the summer of 1989. This is not your average "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" story

The age of 15 can be and usually is an awkward time for boys, and when a group of eleven or twelve are gathered together, and the supervision becomes lax, bad things can happen.

Mr. Newman has written a powerful book that explores the painful and life altering events that changed lives during what should have been a fun time. He has captured in delicate and at times not so delicate hands how the power of hate changes people and displays how easily the unwary can be consumed by it's out of control power.

This is definitely a story for our present times and high praise should be accorded to Mr. Newman's sensitivity and creativity in recounting this story.

This book is copy 14 of 52 signed and numbered leather bound editions signed by James Newman.