Dinny was born to hatred: born in savage revolt against the world that had caught and crushed his too-tursing young mother.

By the time he was twenty-five he had been successively type-setter, reporter, football star, and journalist. He had rocked a small mid-Western college to its foundations by blacking the eyes of its Y.M.C.A. Secretary in defence of his college president. For this he had been expelled. But expulsion had only given him the chance to use his biting pen to better advantage.

Here in barest outline is the beginning of Lloyd C. Douglas's striking novel. The awakening of a human soul is a strange and rare occurrence, but it would be difficult to find a more inspiring theme or one better suited to the talents of the author of Magnificent Obsession.

From the dust jacket