Austin Reed

I really enjoyed this whole package -it needs both parts: text and exegesis. The discovered manuscript of a juvenile delinquents incarceration memoir is bookended with explanation of the life and times of the author, the prison system for young offenders, and the light emendations to enhance clarity and readability. Reed is haunted by, it seems, his crimes and the thought of masturbation as he cycles in and out of a workhouse/indentured servitude system featuring medieval tortures. No wonder show more we can believe some on the outside would help a boy on the run from such hells.

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