$275
TESCH, Gerald
[318] pp.
G.P. Putnam's Sons
1956
8 5/8" x 5 7/8"
VG/ VG
A coming-of age story focused on thirteen-year-old Johnny Parish. Parish lives in a small midwestern town and develops a close relationship with Roy, a thirty-year old gas station worker who comes to develop intimate feelings for Johnny. The novel explores this controversial relationship and the fall-out when the court and the town learns about Roy and Johnny. A stirring novel written from Johnny's perspective, with a keen sense of the midwestern rural dialect. The narrative explores his trauma and confusion over his first teenage summer.