A Rock And A Hard Place: One Boy's Triumphant Story by Anthony Godby Johnson.
Published: New York: Crown, 1993.
Penned by Vicki
Fraginals, under the pseudonym Anthony Godby Johnson to tell the story of a
sexually abused, HIV-positive 14-year-old boy, A rock and a hard place is a prime example of literary fraud,
presented as a memoir. The story is unsentimental and extraordinarily depraved
in its descriptions of child sexual abuse, his neglectful parents beating him
and depriving him of food. Johnson eventually escapes to a life on the mean streets
of New York before being rescued by a pair of social workers, finally finding a
loving family. Written with maturity and wisdom, it is ultimately, an
adolescent’s personal account of overcoming abuse and terror.
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