Title: no improvement in 50 years
Review: I first read this book around 1960. It was a local sensation due to being modeled on the little southern Ohio town I was living in. At 14-years of age I didn't understand the book, saw no socially redeeming value in it but chalked that up to my youth. Now, fifty years later, I have revisited Mr. Frank's novel and once again found it lacking in positive characteristics. I certainly found no person in the book I could or would want to relate to or consider a hero. I was left with a feeling of sadness and confusion over just what it was that the author had tried to say. Two stars is too much but I can't really say I hate it.
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