Fires Of Youth: James Lincoln Collier

Danny's life is quite simple: doing odd jobs with his father to keep afloat, like painting barns or fixing plumbing, and then kicking back with a six-pack at the end of the day. His father believes that aAll women, young and old, are tramps and whores and no good, and are to be steered clear of. But living near a college, with college girls all over the town, Danny goes from complete innocence to jaded weariness as he experiences one after the other. He knows that Angie, the sophisticated, unstable student is trouble and she, with Danny's tough, vengeful father, make a strange triangle. Danny and Angie's affair works out for a while in a hole-and-corner sort of way. Then as the Welsh winter closes in, Angie gets more demanding - and Danny is faced with a cruel, impossible choice.