ACT OF DARKNESS

Tidewater Virginia in the nineties -- a strange case of criminal assult, charged by a young woman against the husband of a friend -- and the effect of all that the trial uncovers on the sensitive boy whose story this chiefly is. It is not a pleasant book, nor one for your squeamish readers. A study in adolescent psychology, with rather extreme measures used to awaken his sexual instincts, by the uncle who later comes to trial. A limited market.