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True like many excellent novels the headmaster ritual takes some time to get into but once you do the rewards are ample instead of exploring the potentially lurid social life of prep school students and teachers antrim opens a window into their inner lives and humanity and the personal struggles that fuel their feelings. With precisely controlled deceptively subtle storytelling the headmaster ritual is an insightful and captivating examination of the halting complicated course young men must chart to shake off the influence of fathers and father figures while refining their convictions about the world and their place in it. True like many excellent novels the headmaster ritual takes some time to get into but once you do the rewards are ample instead of exploring the potentially lurid social life of prep school students and teachers antrim opens a window into their inner lives and humanity and the personal struggles that fuel their feelings. The headmaster ritual deals with the issue of parental abandonment be it physical or emotional the main character the new history teacher and failed real estate man dyer and the titular headmasters son james both drift the edges of life never fully engaging in anything and not understanding what is the source of their unhappiness. True like many excellent novels the headmaster ritual takes some time to get into but once you do the rewards are ample instead of exploring the potentially lurid social life of prep school students and teachers antrim opens a window into their inner lives and humanity and the personal struggles that fuel their feelings