(The Bluetts took him in rather as a publicity stunt during the husband’s failed run for office.) With more luck than he realizes, Horty is taken in by carnies, members of the sideshows of Pierre Monetre’s traveling circus. The primary story arc begins as Horty flees his adoptive parents’ house, taking only a handmade jack-in-the-box called Junky 1, after the husband smashes Horty’s hand in a door frame, severing three fingers. No, despite what lurid conclusions many modern readers may leap, nay, pole vault into, Horty was caught eating ants. He’d been doing it for years.”Ĭouldn’t resist starting the review with that first line! It’s one of my favorites, along with the first line of 1984. “They caught the kid doing something disgusting out under the bleachers at the high school stadium, and he was sent home from the grammar school across the street.
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