SUNSHINE

Little Freddy, to put it kindly, is disturbed -- with symptoms including low-grade sadism, voyeurism, ducking under tables in moments of uneasiness, and compulsive narration in a floodtide stream-of-consciousness style. But then his Miami environment isn't the healthiest either: Poop-pa, though paralyzed from the waist down, manages sado-masochistic wheelchair sex romps with his grotesquely fat, malevolent nurse, Baby Ruth, who also looms large in Freddy's real or imagined erotic life and sidelines with Poop-pa's black male attendant Jo Jo, who in turn had a fling with the lady of the house -- before she committed suicide and after Freddy's younger brother died (of poisoning?). This should be approached, if at all, in a diagnostic spirit. For starters we suggest traumatic premature exposure to Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, etc.