Up Your Banners

DONALD E. WESTLAKE

Publication: The Macmillan Company, 1969, New York

First edition. Review copy with the slip laid-in. Fine in dust jacket. The story follows Oliver Abbott, a young first-year teacher who arrives at the school where his father serves as principal. Unbeknownst to Oliver, his hiring has become the center of a bitter controversy involving race relations, community activism, and accusations of nepotism. He finds himself trapped in a conflict he neither created nor fully understands.