Pagan Babies

by Greg Johnson

Overview

From the fleeting optimism of Kennedy’s Camelot to the fearsome specter of the age of AIDS, this impressive, powerfully written debut novel follows the lives of two young people and their stormy relationship that parallels the moral confusion of America over the next thirty years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781938103414
Publisher:	Dzanc Books
Publication date:	06/04/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	542 KB

Editorial Reviews

The children at St. John Bosco learn what is expected of them through constant repetition, and by the time we meet them in the third grade in the 1960s, they have learned that what is expected of them is uniform conformity. But Clifford Bannon and Janice Rungren do not conform, do not fit in with their classmates, and it is their story we follow in this powerful novel about growing up. Clifford and Janice learn by observation "not" how to toe the line but how to manipulate the way things are to get what they want or think they want. They're soulmates, and although life circumstances and their own mistakes often come between them, their lives run in parallel courses. We see not only what they do but why they do it, and come to understand their plights, which involve them in the major life-style issues of the time, from drugs to sexual promiscuity, homosexuality, and abortion. They struggle, learning to survive and to save themselves and each other. Johnson's debut is a passionate novel that appeals to the reader's mind and heart and wins them both.

Lindsay Throm