The Plastic Age

Step into the roaring '20s with Percy Marks' scandalous campus novel, "The Plastic Age." Follow Hugh Carver's four transformative years at the fictional Sanford College, a New England institution where the curriculum takes a backseat to the intoxicating lessons of Jazz Age excess. Marks, drawing from his own experiences teaching at elite universities, pulls back the curtain on a world of illicit drinking, pervasive smoking, gambling, hazing, and a disconcerting conformity that molds young minds into something far from the "culture" they supposedly seek. It's a vivid, unflinching portrait of undergraduate life, where the pursuit of truth often gets lost in a haze of youthful abandon and institutional apathy.