Orphaned at sixteen, Karl Russel keeps a journal of his inner life during the chaotic sixties in the United States, and on to the political terrorism of Rio de Janeiro and its "invisible" population of the disfigured.
year: 2002
call number/section: 1000
subjects: orphans, fiction, nineteen sixties, warts, suicide, diaries, united states, social conditions, 1960-1980, fiction, rio de janeiro (brazil)