NEVER THE SAME AGAIN

by Gerald Tesch ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

A grim novel, written in the shade of Krafft-Ebbing, a book that parents will read with worried absorption. Johnny, a lonely lad, from a broken home, has shouldered, at thirteen, two grown-up responsibilities, an nerous paper route and the day care- through summer vacation- of a half-wit grandmother. Kindly fate seems to intervene in the person of Roy, a gas station manager who gives him a job and winning his adoration- leads him to feel that he can replace his lost father, give him love and good times. But under a plausible exterior, Roy conceals a confused and deadly hostile and terror-stricken personality. He envisions himself molding Johnny to his own ends. Through pages of intimate sexual discussion and acts, Johnny is victimized, becomes -- through the head of the boys' club to which he belongs- a vulnerable victim of society which breaks Johnny because he cannot understand. A tragic story, too explicit in its mounting horror to have the success of The Night of the Hunter, too close to probability to approach The Bad Seed -- but definitely in the market of abnormal psychology thrillers. The author is another product of the Lowney Handy colony where James Jones wrote his best seller. Caution- here.

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Publisher: Putnam

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1956

Categories: FICTION