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Published in 1949, this shocking novel, an absorbing read, narrates what happened to Raymond Manton, a young high school teacher, an intelligent and sensitive man, who jealously guards the secret of his homosexuality in the closed environment of a small and conservative American town during the Second World War. Only one person knows his secret: Terry, a beautiful and street-smart boy whom Raymond, despite himself, loves and with whom he maintains a relationship based on the boy's economic interest. One day a scandal breaks out in the city: an important figure is arrested for corrupting minors, whom he bought with money and gifts. A witch hunt breaks out in the city and, in the midst of a frenzy of exalted homophobia, the police arrest other men. It is then when Terry, the boy from the street, will try to extort money from Raymond, not knowing that Raymond, faced with the threat, will decide to fight for his life and freedom, which will lead to one of the most audacious endings in American-themed literature. homosexual of those years.