Word: tesch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That "struggling boys' camp" run by Mrs. Lowney Handy [Nov. 12] should be burned to the ground and all the books by both Gerald Tesch and James Jones thrown in for good measure...
...GERALD TESCH TAMPA...
Cold Wet Sprays. Lowney's only sorrow was that in the five years since the colony was founded, it had produced no published book to follow Jones's Eternity. Last week Lowney could boast of a second, with the publication of Never the Same Again by Gerald Tesch...
...unsavory subject is a homosexual affair between a 13-year-old boy and his 30-year-old seducer, a gas-station attendant. Tesch borrows from Jones the neo-Dreiserian conviction that life itself is a four-letter word. Among Tesch's victims and vermin: a girl who commits incest and goes mad, a wife-beating lush, an aging sadistic homosexual. The most defenseless victim is the English language, e.g., "A pang of lonesomeness settled over him like a cold wet spray." Some might argue that Tesch was a born bad writer. But Gerald, an off-and-on Handy colonist...
...where they could develop, where they could get a stream of consciousness." Her marginalia are often crisp ("This becomes idiotic") and sometimes to the point ("You say his uniform was clean. This is the first time I've seen anyone in this story with any clothes on"). Says Tesch: "Lowney really helped me. She went through that book line by line, yet it's still my book, it's me, not her. She's amazing...