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The Temple of Gold (1957)

von William Goldman

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William Goldman's stunning debut novel about a young boy, adrift and alone, coming of age in a cruel worldRaymond Euripides Trevitt is not yet ten when he resolves to make his own way in life. When a new boy, Zock, moves in next door, he knows he has finally met his partner in life's great adventures. As they come of age in midwestern, midcentury America, Ray and Zock become the best of friendseven though they're opposites in many ways. Ray takes Zock hiking; Zock teaches Ray about poetry. Together, they run away to Chicago, hide out in movie theaters, and watch Gunga Din over and over. They navigate high school together: double dating, learning about first love, getting into college. But during a summer visit home, a tragic accident leaves Ray racked with guilt and self-loathing. Broken and lost, Ray is left to find his way through life one blunder at a time, never giving up hope or relinquishing his quest for atonement. This ebook features a biography of William Goldman.… (mehr)
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Uh-no. Boring. ( )
  mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |
A good description of Middle school, and high school life in the 1950's. A buddy story, with the main guys well drawn. There is little here that will not be reworked in his major film scripts, except the narrative format, and some imaginative charactarization of the grown-ups. ( )
  DinadansFriend | Apr 8, 2020 |
I read it around 1962 when I was in high school. A certain passage has stuck with me ever since. A new boy moves in next door, same age as our 12-year-old protagonist, and here is the first meeting:

"I hear you're an absolute angel," I said to him that morning.
"I hear you're not," he came right back, which threw me, because I didn't know how the news had spread so fast.


A wonderfully-described friendship grows through junior high and high school. Then 43 pages later on their last night before parting to separate colleges and, they know, separate lives, feeling awkward and sad and yet cocky and on the verge of a new world:

"Well, Zocker," I said, belting him one on the arm, "don't take any wooden nickels."
"My mother has already warned me."
"And stay loose."
"I shall," he said. "I shall endeavor to try."
"Do endeavor so," I said, imitating him.
We shook hands. "Good-by," I said.
"Good-by, Euripedes."
"Good-by."
But neither of us moved.
"I hear you're an absolute angel," I said finally.
"I hear you're not," he said.
Then we both ran.


Maybe I remember it because it so closely resembled my own boyhood friendship with an unlikely companion.

From that point, the rest of the novel is less satisfying. Very believable characters start doing unbelievable things. Goldman is such a compelling writer, you tend to forgive that he lets the plot determine what he writes so that the characters don't quite fit in. I'd rather he let the characters determine the plot.

Goldman graduated from Oberlin in 1952, just five years before this book was published. I guess it's no surprise that the description of high school years was so vivid and true, while the adult behavior seems more imagined.

My quibbles are only quibbles. Any writer who creates a passage I can still remember after 40 years has done something rare and valuable. ( )
1 abstimmen JoeCottonwood | Mar 31, 2013 |
My personal Catcher in the Rye alternative ( )
  BCCJillster | May 9, 2009 |
(Bantam Books #H2984) ( )
  marlojo | May 23, 2011 |
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William Goldman's stunning debut novel about a young boy, adrift and alone, coming of age in a cruel worldRaymond Euripides Trevitt is not yet ten when he resolves to make his own way in life. When a new boy, Zock, moves in next door, he knows he has finally met his partner in life's great adventures. As they come of age in midwestern, midcentury America, Ray and Zock become the best of friendseven though they're opposites in many ways. Ray takes Zock hiking; Zock teaches Ray about poetry. Together, they run away to Chicago, hide out in movie theaters, and watch Gunga Din over and over. They navigate high school together: double dating, learning about first love, getting into college. But during a summer visit home, a tragic accident leaves Ray racked with guilt and self-loathing. Broken and lost, Ray is left to find his way through life one blunder at a time, never giving up hope or relinquishing his quest for atonement. This ebook features a biography of William Goldman.

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