THE BOY CAME BACK

by Charles H. Knickerbocker ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 19, 1951

The question of the responsibility for the misfit, the problems and sometimes soul-searching it arouses, is the background for the Boy's return to his uncle's home in Maine. He brings violence, from his past, from his war experiences, pathos from his realization of his inequality, and antagonism from his marriage to the Girl whose wisdom and roughly carved understanding is greater than his. He loses jobs, his temper outruns him, but he is aware of the chaos threatening him. The doctor makes his effort at rescue, the powerful politician leads the pack against first the Boy, then the Girl, and the town is quick to add to the Boy's bad name. Injury to the girl and later her murder send the boy once more to the anonymity of the armed services in Korea- and an honorable death. Moral judgments based on incomplete knowledge, town gossip versus individual evaluation, equal criticism for a social order which condemns but makes no effort to correct, this provides a thesis with some sexy trimmings.

Pub Date: Oct. 19, 1951

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: A. A. Wyn

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1951

Categories: FICTION