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Still available, "King" volume one establishes the series' tone - an attempt to get beyond the near-saintly mythologization of King's life. Focusing primarily on his early adulthood as a charismatic theology student and young minister, volume one includes such unexpected moments as when King explodes at his wife Coretta over her complaints about having no life of her own. "Did I tell you to have that baby?" he screams. A few pages later he invites an attractive New York acolyte up to his hotel room. But such salacious details take a backseat to the more important business...
Legally speaking, as the differences in legal adulthood indicate, the younger partners are not always treated as victims. Even in states where the age of consent is 18, prosecutors rarely go after, say, a 23-year-old for sleeping with a 17-year-old. Given that up to half of teens say they have had sex while a minor, "millions of statutory-rape cases occur every day," says Michelle Oberman, a DePaul University rape-law specialist...
...rest of the novel is Ben’s account of his existence before adulthood as shaped by his mother and the cult of women she has taken into their Ohio home. The cult, called the Silentists, is led by a woman named Jane Dark, who directs them in their efforts to eliminate all motion, all speech and all feeling. This entails a number of rather complex processes and experiments involving cloth that holds words, water that absorbs experience and oral communication (what little there is of it) with an emphasis on vowels over consonants. Marcus describes elaborate devices designed...
...resigned Palm Beach bishop, Anthony O'Connell. Doe is 34 years old, and what he says happened to him starting 19 years ago, when he was a 15-year-old, "barely 5-feet-tall and 100 lbs," plunged him into a suicidal depression that has haunted his adulthood as well as what should have been the most carefree years of his life. It started in1982, when he entered the St. Thomas Aquinas preparatory seminary in Hannibal largely because of his admiration for a childhood parish pastor who "represented the awe I had for priests...
...thing." But O'Connell did. Finally, in 1991, Doe severed contact with the bishop - but says the abuse at St. Thomas and afterward left him dealing with serious depression and suicidal tendencies. He once attempted a drug overdose on aspirin and Tylenol, and spent much of his young adulthood mutilating his arm and wrists...