pp 208 Mass Market Paperback by Fawcett Crest M2040; very good condition; creased spine with slight bumping at top/bottom; very light edgewear; clean age-toned pages; no creases // A young author's stories that concern themselves with problems and situations that youth knows: the conflict between the hope of the young and the pessimism of the old; the realization of the injustices of the civilized order; the horror of the senseless cruelty condoned by society; the reality of evil, existing even in the good and the loving; brutality without motivation—the ultimate horror; the senseless machinations of fate that condition all of life. And, above all, man standing at the North Gate—the boundary between civilization and wilderness, both borne in his heart—and striving toward the victory which he is capable.