Freud in St. Augustine: A Novel of Homelessness & Wealth in the Nation's Oldest City

ISBN-13: 9781496182937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 264 str.

Carrol Wolverton

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Like tales set in the South? Like St. Augustine? Like history? You will love Bobby Marcos' story of survival among the poor and the rich. He was fine growing up in Waycross until he turned seventeen and strange voices started telling him to do things. Worm-like watchers crawled all over. His grades plunged and school personnel told his parents to get help. Nothing worked, not even constant Southern Baptist prayer sessions. His family populated with characters did little, and his father cussed on. Bobby takes off into his beloved Okefenokee Swamp that welcomes him. The ever-infringing world does not. He encounters dead bodies, thieves, cheats, and a migrant camp from hell. He steals a ride to St. Augustine and flounders much as before. This place has ghosts who add more watchers. What's different is the St. Francis House shelter and, to his dismay, a social worker from Waycross, a very wealthy one with her own story. Things do happen. The retired volunteer shrink resembles Jack Nicholson after the lobotomy who does his best to elude the county guys trying to cart off his equally retired desk. Does Bobby or anybody else figure out a way for him to accept help and the meds he needs? In St. Augustine?