Moab Is My Washpot

A memoir that tells how, sent to a boarding school 200 miles from home at the age of seven, the author survived beatings, misery, love, ecstasy, carnal violation, expulsion, imprisonment, criminal conviction, probation and catastrophe to emerge, at eighteen, ready to try and face the world in which he had always felt a stranger.

Un memoriu care povesteste cum, trimis la un internat la 200 de mile de casa la varsta de sapte ani, autorul a supravietuit batailor, mizeriei, dragostei, extazului, incalcarii carnale, expulzarii, inchisorii, condamnarii penale, probatiunei si catastrofei sa iasa, la optsprezece ani. , gata sa incerce sa infrunte lumea in care se simtise mereu strain.