Remember: The protagonist of the story, the kid, was a killer.
The title squares with the unfortunate tendency of the public to oversimplify both the genesis a.
If I succeeded to any degree, the thrust and power of the story derives from its rawness, its unprettied crudities.
I wanted to examine violence-its meaning, its psychological roots, its social implications-in dramatic terms.
That was and is the simple, stark fact; that was and remains my point in authoring the type of novel I did.
Remember: The protagonist of the story, the kid, was a killer