We Need To Get Rid of Nick

Nick has a compelling life story; growing up illegitimate, forsaken by his dysfunctional step-father and hapless mother, he spent a tough youth in foster homes; eventually attending Maryville Academy, Illinois as a boarder in 1955. The route that Nick takes through life mirrors America's unique social history from civil rights, war and social upheaval to the individualism of the new century. It explores the struggles of a man's conflict with his own identity, race, sexuality and place in society. Moving, at times hilarious and engaging, you're fascinated by how Nick survives, but your relationship with him is uneasy. There's an underlying atavism in Nick; unsettling, disturbing and questioning the reader's own sense of morality.