FA: The Home, Growing Up in an Orphanage, McKenzie, HB/DJ

A Memoir of Growing Up in an Orphanage
The Home
Richard McKenzie

Like other children in the 1950s, Richard McKenzie remembers pillow fights
and pea shootouts, Tarzanlike swings across wooded ravines and carefully
camouflaged forts; and later, slicked-back hair and an Elvis-inspired cool
calculated to impress girls. But for McKenzie, the son of alcoholic and
abusive parents, these happy memories came after years of violence and fear.
Placed at the age of ten in a home for children in North Carolina, he was
given a chance to make a new beginning. This poignant memoir, written with
heartfelt immediacy, tells the story of his life there more than four
decades ago.

Basic Books/HarperCollins, New York, 1996, First Edition, 228 pages, 5 ¾" x
8 ½’, white boards with white cloth spine and black lettering, dust jacket.

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Auction closes 6/24/04.