SCARRED

by Bruce Lowery ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

This first novel was written by a 29-year-old Nevadan who is the first American to win the Prix Rivarol given to a foreigner writing in French and is here translated by the author. It pictures a few crucial months in the life of Jeff, a thirteen year old, in a small mid-western town. The physical scar left by an operation to repair a hare-lip is symbolic of and, to a certain extent, responsible for the psychic scar inflicted on the boy by his callous schoolmates. Their rejection awakens in Jeff a perversity which causes him to steal from his sole friend. Guilt turns him from the purest love he has ever known or is like to know -- that of his adoring younger brother. When the brother is accidentally killed Jeff's burden of suffering and remorse is all but insupportable. Without the pathos such a theme might have produced, this, in its discipline, is most moving.

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Publisher: Vanguard

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1961

Categories: FICTION