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Too Much Sun by Lee Olds, his vintage coming-of-age novel starring an Alaskan runaway kid, originally out from Vanguard in 1960 and later picked up by Bantam Books. This quotes praise from various outlets in the blurb, and was apparently a Book of the Month club selection back in the day.
Discover TOO MUCH SUN, the 60s best-selling classic by Lee Olds, the beautifully written tale of Barry Douglas who runs away from his stifling home and rich parents to live by his own means in the freedom and beauty of the wild frontier of Alaska. Barry gets a tough job cutting brush at a remote mining camp and finds release from the gruelling labor with sex, cold beer, and jazz. In the local town he meets Mary, a half Eskimo prostitute with whom he discovers both love and tragedy. This is the unputdownable novel of a young man coming to terms with himself and his world. A great read which will delight and surprise you.