A significant experience. Avon, pbr, 1963. Jonathan Cape, 1964. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1995. Scribner Paperback Fiction, pb, 1997.
First love is never easy.
But when the new boy in a small town is secretly abused by his father, first love with his friend Roy might be the only thing that can save him. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994. Scribner, pb, 1997. Concerns the early years of Danny, a hemophiliac in North Carolina. Deals with his sexual, physical and mental abuse at the hands of his alcoholic father in an impoverished upbringing.