Synopsis
Despite the fuzzy underpinnings of this ""dramatization"" of the story of four chance reform-school boys (""actual case histories,"" supplemented by ""composites""), Lazzarino and Hayes offer an unusual closeup of the lives of children we throw in jail ""because they have no adults to care for them."" The scene is Clearwater [Nebraska] Boys' Industrial School, an institution designed for hard-core delinquents, where in 1963 there arrived: Matt, a 14-year-old Wyoming ranchhand's son, who got into minor trouble with the law after his father's death left him orphaned; John, a bright black teenager (""My mama left me, and the state figured I'd end up here sooner or later anyway, so they greased the skids and shipped me straight. It was all legal. . .""); Ralph, an obese 15-year-old mute who, for years, had been erroneously classified as profoundly retarded; and Tony, a streetwise black ten-year-old who had acted as mother's pimp. This unlikely group stuck together as friends: their ""determination to survive and capacity to adapt to a system that. . . rendered them helpless"" pulled them through.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 329 Pages. First Edition by the full number line. The dust jacket is Not price-clipped.This very powerful book is about four boys who, due to no other "Safe" place existing for them, are placed in a Reformatory in 1960s and the book then details their lives within. It is based on real lives and incidences, which makes the book all the more powerful.The book's dust jacket is in Very Good to Near fine condition with small worn areas on the top and bottom edges and one slightly worn corner. The interior book, however, is in Fine condition with no visible extraneous markings throughout it nor visible detriments or distractions and therefore, all of the printing is in a very well-preserved and readable condition and the book's sewn-in bindings remain tight and hence are sound. If you should purchase this book from us, it will be carefully wrapped up, padded, boxed, and then mailed right away to you and will come with our absolute appreciation for your interest in the book and for your order of it. Seller Inventory # 984
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Condition: very good, good. First Printing. 24 cm, 329, ink name inside front board, pencil erasure on front endpaper, publisher's ephemera laid in. Four youths--two black, two white--are relegated to a reformatory, because there is no other "safe place" for them. Seller Inventory # 36311