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Joanne Greenberg takes on a most forbidden subject here - the humanity of a pedophile. I don't want to spoil the plot of the novel, but suffice to say she sheds light from several angles on a man who did terrible things in his past - and she gracefully separates the essence of the man from the things that he did. She looks at him as a person with a problem, not with an evil self... This alone makes this book valuable and important. Add to this that the book is fast-flowing, gripping, and consistently heartfelt... (It's also the story of a family coming to grips with their 20-something year old daughter's impending blindness, not to mention the emotional blindness of the girl's mother about the blindness and the pedophilia in the family.)

However, Greenberg does not really explore why the pedophile did what he did. (Not that any pedophiles I have met - I'm a therapist - have had much more insight into themselves. But still...) Here I love the writing of psychologist Alice Miller, who delves in a different direction to help understand why a man like this might do what he did... However, even Alice Miller has some limits when it comes to relating to pedophiles. (To me it's clear-cut: pedophilia is an acted out replication, coded, metaphorical, or literal, for those things done to the pedophile when he was a child.) Not an easy subject, and if one of the best psychology writers out there falls short, then all the more kudos to Joanne Greenberg, who succeeds at creating a flesh-and-blood human out of her fictional character.

One last point: I couldn't help but think throughout the book that the mother, who from the first mention of the pedophilia to the end of the book had no empathy for the pedophile and just considered him evil evil evil, was herself molested as a kid. It sure would have added up - and would have helped me empathize more with her closed-mindedness!

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Keeping Up Appearances - Sea Fever [VHS]
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I eat sleep breathe and dream of Hyacinth Bucket. She is so goddamn hilarious....I just can't get over her manner and ways. Each time I watch an episode...albeit a rerun...I get tickled. I manage to find something funny each time. Bravo Hyacinth....

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