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...CARETAKERS (404 pp.)-Dariel Telfer-Simon & Schuster...
This is an angry first novel about the casual maltreatment of the insane in a Midwestern state asylum called Canterbury. The book's anger might be a great deal more effective if Author Telfer, who herself spent six years as a clerk in a state institution, did not keep abandoning the snake pit for the passion...
...when Author Telfer deserts the patients for their keepers, the fervent social reformer becomes a kind of madhouse Grace Metalious. Two nurse trainees, Kathy Hunter and Althea Home, develop identical crushes on Donovan Macleod, the strong, silent head doctor. Macleod is impervious, but his colleague, Dr. Larry Denning, is so "vigorously amorous" that he rips off Althea's dress one night and treats her to what he regards as therapeutic rape. Pretty soon both nurses are sleeping in beds they never made...
Fred Horween, working with three-year veteran Todd Goodwin and sophomore Karl Bjork in the first line, Skip Baldwin, centering Chuck Edwards and Jim Telfer in the third, and John Lane, utility midfielder and attack man, are top threats from tomorrow's game in the other lines...
...second line Telfer has turned in excellent performances in the past several games, despite a knee injury that has bothered him all year...