2014, ISBN: 9780553378221

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N.p.: Privately Printed. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Good. Gary Carroll. 12mo. 38 pages. Soft cover bound in tan stapled wrappers. The binding is worn but sound, and th… More...

N.p.: Privately Printed. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Good. Gary Carroll. 12mo. 38 pages. Soft cover bound in tan stapled wrappers. The binding is worn but sound, and there are several glass rings on both the front and rear covers. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page, "For Mrs. Curtis Cato and family with many good wishes. Let's keep out ties with dear old Piedmont. / Paul H. Neal." Additionally, there is a handwritten name and address on the final page of text. No copyright date. Appears to be a work of fiction., Privately Printed, 2.5, The year is 1975 and Reno - so-called because of the place of her birth - has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in that world, and Remo meets a group of dreamers and raconteurs who submit her to a sentimental educations of sorts. Ardent, vulnerable, and bold, she begins an affair with an artist, the estranged scion of an Italian tire and motorcycle empire. When they visit his family home in Italy, betrayal sends Reno reeling into a clandestime undertow., Scribner, 2014-02-04, 3, Bantam, 1997. Near Fine. Honest, unpretentious prose characterizes this first novel about a case of criminal sexual misconduct and two families in crisis. In the opening chapt er, set in 1980, Linda Young, 33, who lives in a "friendly, safe" neighborh ood in Jackson, Mich., describes the moment when her 12-year-old son, Robbi e, drops "his bomb": "Jerry Houseman's been touching me." Robbie says the a buse has been going on for "a while," which stretches into a few months, th en a year. Jerry, a neighbor with three daughters, has been showering Robbi e with gifts, treating him like a surrogate son-or so Linda has assumed. Ro bbie begs his mother not to tell anyone, but she and her husband call the p olice. Campbell delivers the story of Jerry's arrest, trial and the afterma th, from four points of view. They include Linda's unabashedly angry accoun t, Jerry's detached and sentimental narration and a poignant portrait by Je rry's wife, Jeanette, of her husband, who has been previously attracted to young boys. The final and most convincing voice, that of Robbie as a young adult, gets to the heart of the boy's turmoil. Readers must wade past some superficial narrative here, but they'll find that, through Jeanette and Rob bie, Campbell accomplishes the formidable task of illuminating the complex feelings and issues that confront his seemingly ordinary people., Bantam, 1997, 4<

1997, ISBN: 9780553378221

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1997. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5" x 8. 313 pages. In a first novel of extraordinary candor and compassion, Scott Campbell chronicles an event… More...

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1997. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5" x 8. 313 pages. In a first novel of extraordinary candor and compassion, Scott Campbell chronicles an event that in an instant shakes two families to their very foundations. Robbie Young is an ordinary twelve yar old boy about to drop a bombshell on his small-town family. ?Arriving home from the mall, he finds his mother in the kitchen and speaks aloud the secret he's been keeping ofr a year: Jerry Houseman's been touching me. The Young family will never be the same.The unfolds in four parts. Robbie's mother, whose sense of guild is overwhelming, then by their neighbor Jerry Houseman, who has struggled unsuccessfully against his compulsions, next by Houseman's wife fighting to hold her family together during her husband's trial. Finally by Robbie himself, fifteen years later when he has returned to town for a high school reunion. A nove impossible to put down and impossible to forget. HOnest, unpretentious and illuminating---Publishers Weekly, Bantam Books, 1997, 3<

1997, ISBN: 9780553378221

Bantam, 1997-03-31. Softcover. Very Good., Bantam, 1997-03-31, 3