Fly Away Paul

by Peter Davies

A teen-age boy living in a boy's home in Montreal copes with the loss of his three best friends and with the cruelty and sexuality of the other boys as he fights to make a new way of life for himself. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: 0773771360
• ISBN13: 9780773771369
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Crown
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Lonely orphan boy escapes from institution

Paul is a boy on the edge of adolescence, troubled that he's an orphan living in an uncaring institution for boys. He's not loved, not wanted, and not cared for. His only escape is in solitary sex, a few minutes respite from a bleak and desperate existence. The other boys engage in brutal relationships, for which Paul has no taste.Symbolic of the early 1970's, when institutionalization was the norm, the novel reflects the worst of institutionalized child care.Paul escapes, for a twisted life of freedom yet one just as hard as the one he left. He's searching for freedom, as well as to belong to someone, to love and be loved. This is a hard tale of growing up. A book for all those who would love a boy, and hate their brutal treatment.