One of the supreme advantages of being born a child of privilege is the freedom to reject the values of one’s own class—having one’s cake, eating it and spitting it out. Far harder to expel is a clinging feeling of entitlement that can consume a lifetime.
Mount Pleasant, the title of Don Gillmor’s mordantly powerful new…
James FitzGerald
James FitzGerald won the 2010 Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize for his family memoir, What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son’s Quest To Redeem the Past (Random House). His first book, Old Boys: The Powerful Legacy of Upper Canada College, was published by Macfarlane Walter and Ross in 1994.
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In his 2006 Giller Prize–winning collection of linked short stories, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, Vincent Lam introduced a cameo character, Percival Chen, the tuxedo-clad headmaster of a private English academy in Saigon, sleeping off a hangover after a debauched night of gambling and whoring. In Lam’s first novel, The Headmaster’s Wager…