Book Nook Join Book Nook

The Savage Gentleman

Philip Wylie

Betrayed by his wife, Stephen Stone spirits his son, Henry, away to a remote tropical island and trains him to be an ideal physical specimen and a perfect gentleman. After years of isolation, Henry Stone is now a young man, standing a full six feet two inches tall and weighing 190 pounds. His hair is bronze, his eyes turquoise, his skin mahogany--a magnificent man. When Henry finally returns to civilization, he finds that his father's business has grown into a news empire. Though he is the owner of this huge conglomerate, a great conversationalist and excellent company, well versed in etiquette, and extraordinarily nice, Henry has never seen a woman. Indeed his father has taught him never to trust a female and that love itself is a myth. When Henry collides with the contemporary world and the modern woman, the collision is necessarily fascinating and complicated for both Henry and the society he is discovering.

GenresBoysFictionFathers and sonsIslandsYoung menAlienation (Social psychology)

172 pages, 3 editions

English edition · First published 2009 by University of Nebraska Press · ISBN 9780803234604

Readers also shelved

Be the first to rate this book

Tap or drag across the stars

Editions

3 editions

English

  • The Savage Gentleman · University of Nebraska Press · 2010 · ISBN 9780803234604 This page
  • The Savage Gentleman · Lulu.com · 2009 · ISBN 9781605432106
  • The Savage Gentleman · Lulu.com · 2009 · ISBN 9781605432113

Keep track of what you read

Book Nook is a free reading tracker with a 3D bookshelf, a reading timer, challenges with friends and a Reading Wrapped at the end of the year. Add The Savage Gentleman to your shelf in one tap.

Join Book Nook Get the app