Never the Same Again by Tesch Tesch

As Time put it in their disparaging review: 'Its unsavory subject is a homosexual affair between a 13-year-old boy and his 30-year-old seducer, a gas-station attendant.' Heady stuff then-- and now. Time continued, 'Tesch borrows from Jones the neo-Dreiserian conviction that life itself is a four-letter word. Among Tesch's victims and vermin: a girl who commits incest and goes mad, a wife-beating lush, an aging sadistic homosexual' (November 12, 1956).