Books by Peter Prescott

Focusing on the end of childhood, this book not only captures the conflicts and emotions of a single year, but probes beneath the surface of memory to explore certain tribal customs and rites of passage as they are played out in the classrooms and living quarters of the college.

This collection of essays discusses some of the important books, authors, and literary trends of a volatile era in American and world literature whose cultural repercussions are still being felt

Peter S. Prescott was one of the most informed and incisive American literary critics to write for the general public. Never content merely to summarize or to pronounce quick judgments, Prescott's reviews are witty and delightful essays to be enjoyed for their own sake as examples of civilized discourse

This is a book about the end of childhood. Much of it is drawn directly from a diary the author kept while he was a bright but insecure freshman at Harvard in the 1950s.

A chronicle of contemporary American culture, this second volume focuses on fiction by American authors and on non-fiction that reflects our American unease. It casts an ironic eye on how we in this country think we live; on what we are saying about ourselves in our fiction, our history, and our biography.