Never the Same Again
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| Author | Jerry Tschappat (under the pseudonym Gerald Tesch) |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | G .P. Putnam's |
| Released | 1956 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| ISBN | NA |
Never the Same Again is a 1956 novel by Jerry Tschappat, written under the name Gerald Tesch.[1]
Never the Same Again is the story of the coming-of-age of an adolescent boy, 13-year-old Johnny Parish.
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[edit] Plot summary
Johnny forms an sexual attachment to 30-year old Roy Davies. 'Davies didn’t treat him as a corny kid but talked and laughed with him as if he were a grown-up man.' Davies grooms Johnny by offering him a job at his gas station, then buying him a fishing rod, offering him cigarettes and taking him swimming.
Davies soon starts to molest Johnny in his car and their intimate relationship carries on for quite some time, until Davies' past history of child sexual abuse emerges. Johnny is forced into revealing what he and Roy, apaedophile, have done together. They have to stop seeing each other but in their last conversation Johnny still protests his love for Roy.
[edit] Release details
It was published by G .P. Putnam's Sons, without an ISBN. It was republished in 1958 by Pyramid Books.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ http://library.indstate.edu/level1.dir/cml/rbsc/rbooks/j_jones.html "Writing under the penname Gerald Tesch, Jerry Tschappat's Never the Same Again (Putnam's) came out in 1956."
- ^ http://www.lavenderlibrary.org/pages/Special.htm "Author: Tesch, Gerald / Year: 1958 / Title: Never the same again / City: New York / Publisher: Pyramid Books"
