J. A. Monteleone

All Things Being Equal J. A. Monteleone

ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL is about a nave young man's first year at a large university. It is 1950 and he joins a social fraternity. He is green, seventeen, soon to be eighteen, and must register for the draft. He is impatiently waiting to be twenty-one, more to legally drink than to vote. It is a year of pressures. He wants to succeed in college and be part of a group, but has doubts about succumbing to the whims of that group. He must deal with the threat of the Korean War, and the loss of friends to that war. He doesn't want to die in a war. He faces a difficult situation involving an aggressive girl and her ex-boyfriend who is the director of Hell Week.