Little Boy Blue

by Edward Bunker

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Young Alex Hamilton is intelligent and independent but given to sudden fits of rage. Rebellious since his parents split up, Alex is constantly absconding from foster homes and institutions to be with his father, a broken man who can't give his son the home he desperately needs. Surrounded by well meaning, over worked social workers, vicious and cruel authority figures, and always by no good peers, Alex is on a collision course with the law and himself.

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Raised within the confines of a system that has done nothing but provide him with pain, Alex Hamilton's frustration and anger are completely natural--and inherently dangerous.
Since his parents split up, Alex has been constantly running from foster homes and institutions, yearning to be with his father, a broken man who cannot give his son the home he desperately needs. The only constant in Alex's life is no-good, criminally-minded peers, who are all too ready to plant illegal ideas in an intelligent mind. Bunker writes, "His unique potential would develop into unique destructiveness."
Alex Hammond es un niño inteligente e independiente, pero sujeto a violentos accesos de rabia. Rebelde desde el divorcio de sus padres, Alex pasará su infancia huyendo de casas de acogida y reformatorios en la California de la Gran Depresión para ir en busca de su padre, un hombre deshecho e incapaz de ofrecer al hijo el hogar que necesita desesperadamente. Asistentes sociales bien intencionados, pero desconcertados por su comportamiento, y crueles figuras autoritarias se cruzarán en su camino y marcarán a fuego su carácter. Las atroces experiencias vividas en instituciones estatales, y las malas compañías, llevarán a un chico brillante, pero excesivamente impulsivo, a vivir según un código propio que chocará constantemente show more con el orden establecido y lo convertirá en un precoz delincuente show less
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Canonical title*
La bête au ventre
Original title
Little boy blue
Original publication date
1981
Disambiguation notice*
Fait suite à "Aucune bête aussi féroce" et à "La bête contre les murs"
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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Mystery
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3552 .U47 .L5Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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