The Hangman's Children($17.00Value)

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Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper covered boards with the spine stamped in blue. An odd re-creation of the 1960s, this novel features an ensemble cast of generally unlikable characters reacting to the turmoil of the times. Itinerant freethinker Sam Maledon liberates his high-minded son, Jesse, from the mental institution to which he's been committed by his stepfather for trying to avoid the draft. Hanger-on Gloria (willing to have sex with anyone in "rebellion" against her stodgy, affluent father) joins the wanderers, trailing her tiny daughter along. Told by alternating narrators, the story rambles on to its conclusion at the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968, offering some of the worst stereotypes of the era. Skip this one. - Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. Used Book in Good Condition