![]() ![]() ![]() The subtitle becomes an indictment of an America where such terrible moments (and hours and days and years) can befall boys: Richard and Stanley Rhodes were terrorized by the woman their father married some years after his first wife, the boys’ mother, committed suicide in Kansas City, Kan., in 1938. Nothing by the prolific and talented Richard Rhodes-who has written first-rate fiction and nonfiction for years, and whose “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize-prepares us for this shattering testimony. “A Hole in the World” must be read through tears-the reader’s and the writer’s-and it must be acknowledged as powerful a bearing of witness, as dark a story of cruelty, as redemptive a proclamation of the soul’s strength as we have been given in a very long time. ![]()
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