The Coming Storm

The Coming Storm

Told through the alternating viewpoints of four individuals, <I>The Coming Storm</I> centers around a traditional upper-class boys' school in upstate New York. Louis Tremper, the headmaster at the Forge School, his wife, Claire, Tracy Parker, a twenty-five-year-old gay man recently hired to teach at the school, and Noah Lathrop III, a troubled fifteen-year-old student--each character must struggle with inner demons, desires, and conflicting loyalties. As their lives move to a crisis point, dark episodes from the school's past collide with the current, growing confusion that reigns when Tracy and Noah get entangled in an illicit relationship.<P> Widely praised and acclaimed by readers and critics alike for his earlier novels, Paul Russell has created a brilliant and compelling story. <I>The Coming Storm</I> is his finest and most poignant work to date.