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Into The Attic: A Novel, Laura E. Koons
Into The Attic: A Novel, Laura E. Koons
Doctoral Dissertations
This creative dissertation is a novel titled Into the Attic. The novel tells the story of Sullivan Young, a junior at a small liberal arts college in central Pennsylvania in the mid-2000s, and James Shelley, a young literature professor at the college, with whom Sullivan initiates an affair. The narrative switches between the points of view of these two men, neither of whom is happy with the person he is becoming, and develops around the fears each has about the relationship.
The novel is concerned with character, sexuality, and power; in order to explore these issues fully within Sullivan and …