A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood Tenth Anniversary Edition
Rhodes, whose mother committed suicide when he was a year old, recalls how he and his older brother were physically and emotionally devastated by an abusive stepmother and their father's complicity with her. "He explores the minefield of his boyhood with a convincing neutrality that precludes neither love nor hate and allows, in the end, redemption and an unforgettable view of a childhood," said PW.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.