Touched (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780553378221)

Robbie Young is an ordinary twelve-year-old boy about to drop a bombshell that will devastate his small town family. One day he rides his bike home after school, finds his mother in the kitchen making dinner, and speaks aloud the secret he's been keeping for a year, Jerry Houseman's been touching me. Robbie has been molested and the Young family will never be the same. From that moment on, the novel unfolds with inexorable power. The story is narrated in four parts: first by Robbie's mother, then by Jerry Houseman himself, then by Houseman's wife Linda, and concluded by Robbie himself fifteen years later, when he has returned to town for a high school reunion. Each voice is remarkably persuasive and utterly convincing, and the result is a novel that is impossible to put down as it is impossible to forget.

Author: Scott Campbell
ISBN-10: 0553378228
ISBN-13: 9780553378221
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/31/1997
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.60w x 0.24d