Word: maniacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel about Zululand in the form of a monologue by a homicidal maniac has the makings of a rather engaging talc. Unfortunately, when much of the story consists of "Chicken Every Sunday" family incidents, the musings of a madman are hardly the appropriate narrative device. Only the excellent and perceptive writing and the author's wide knowledge of the locale rescue the book fro the awkwardness of the plot...
...shameful, shocking story" of thousands of juvenile delinquents who were being imprisoned with hardened criminals. As a horrible example, he cited Taylorsville's own "two-cell, log jail" where, he said, "a 13-year-old runaway boy was locked up . . . for four days with a screaming, laughing maniac...