Full name: The Hearts of Men: A Novel

Author: Nickolas Butler Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Historical fiction, Contemporary, Young adult Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780062469700 9780062469687 0062469703 0062469681

Camp Chippewa, 1962. Nelson Doughty, age thirteen, social outcast and overachiever, is the Bugler, sounding the reveille proudly each morning. Yet this particular summer marks the beginning of an uncertain and tenuous friendship with a popular boy named Jonathan. Over the years, Nelson, irrevocably scarred from the Vietnam War, becomes Scoutmaster of Camp Chippewa, while Jonathan marries, divorces, and turns his father's business into a highly profitable company. And when something unthinkable happens at a camp get-together with Nelson as Scoutmaster and Jonathan's teenage grandson and daughter-in-law as campers, the aftermath demonstrates the depths--and the limits--of Nelson's selflessness and bravery. The Hearts of Men is a sweeping, panoramic novel about the slippery definitions of good and evil, family and fidelity, the challenges and rewards of lifelong friendships, the bounds of morality--and redemption. Similar books: Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig Orchard by Larry Watson A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan Driftless by David Rhodes Flood by Robert Penn Warren Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man by Joseph Heller Local Souls by Allan Gurganus The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti Pinkerton's Sister by Peter Rushforth Pictures of Fidelman by Bernard Malamud The Legacy by Howard Fast A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg Iona Moon by Melanie Rae Thon Hello to the Cannibals by Richard Bausch A Desert in Bohemia by Jill Paton Walsh The Starboard Sea by Amber Dermont Girl Through Glass by Sari Wilson Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok Trail of Broken Wings by Sejal Badani