Lucan

by C.K. Chandler and Michael Zagor

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345274024
• ISBN13: 9780345274021
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.

Customer Reviews

LUCAN - More Than A Book About A Boy Raised By Wolves.

Lucan is a book that spawned a short lived TV movie pilot and series that ran on the ABC network way back in the years 1977-78. Lucan was essentially about a boy lost in the wilds of Minnisota at a very young age who was raised by wolves. Found at age 10 years by hunters then captured by scientists he was forced back into human society. The buy named LUCAN by accident of him hearing a doctor say YOU CAN attempting to say YOU CAN it came out LUCAN which seemed as good a name as any other so it became his.Well to make a long story short this book chronicles the first attempts of LUCAN to deal with being plunged into the politics and troubles of human society. Ok the idea is cool, the execution of the story a little hokey BUT, I am a severely disabled dude who was sort of forced out of himan society. For me LUCAN was like an inspiring empowering friend during my growing up. I like LUCAN was born and grew up on the outside of society and then was asked later to live within its rules. It was hard but LUCAN was my inspiration. I learned a lot about living in society from LUCAN. More than anything I learned it was worth trying to live in human society because of LUCAN. I will always owe a debt I can never repay to the writer of the book LUCAN and Kevin Brophy who played LUCAN on the 1977-78 TV series for lighting my path to my current great job and place in society.Just in case you are wondering. Did I ever make it in society. Yes after 40 years of learning how to live in society at age 42 I have a job with the government as a software engineer. I am still a bit wild, certainly I am the strangest thing in the building where I work. I still have lots of minor issues but, its funny how I am well loved where I work dispite all the many things that make me way different. LUCAN was 20 years old in the TV movie in 1977 I was 18. I like thinking that somewhere in government LUCAN did well as I did and its working and making lots of money to live well. Hey its a disabled thing. Anyway buy the book its not the greatest writing but the story is filled with meaning and insights into the fight to live in this human society when your disability psychological makeup brain damage upbringing or other challenges make you so radically different from society you are forced to grow up outside it. Then only as you become an adult and must fend for yourself in human society are you asked to cope with the demands of life in the same human society you grew up outside of. This is the real message of LUCAN... Buy It NOW!