Blossom River Drive

By Richard Ferri

Blossom River Drive takes us back to a very real and present mid-century America into the dangerous innocence of two children, David DiGiorgio and Sharon Tammerand. Their friendship plumbs unexplored... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967672309
• ISBN13: 9780967672304
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Panhelenic Press
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Banned Novel a New Classic

Banned in California schools because ultra-conservative parents are afraid of having their children discuss its marginally erotic contents, this novel deserves to be read and re-read. One way I evaluate the value of a book is by its ability to tolerate multiple readings. This one does--for any one serious about discovering childhood's unspoken secrets or serious about literature that dares to shed light on areas where fiction has not previously been permitted to go.

Intimate Secrets of Childhood Revealed at Last

This book boldly leaps into the heart of childhood secrets that the culture tells as are taboo, untouchable. Childhood is the time of grave danger and unthinkable exploration; anything is possible, including sex. This book explores these ideas in an extraordinarily direct and honest manner. It is indispensible and should be #1 on everyone's bestseller list.

Novel Discovery of the Year!

A novel of a ten year old boy and eleven year old girl in the McCarthy era exploring each other and the world; yes, it's sexually explicit, but it's never pornographic because the object is truth, not titilation. My pick for novel discovery of the year.

Surrounded Again by the Intensitiy of Childhood

Richard Ferri's new novel "Blossom River Drive" took me back to being a kid again--terrified, alert to every sensory occurrence, trusting, crushed, ready to make a game of each new moment of life even as life itself was making a game of me. An engrossing, eye-opening, unforgettable experience.

A Wonderful Experience

At first, on the surface, this novel appears simple and direct; it is--and yet it manages to introduce the reader into an amazing world where children initiate each other into the world of erotic experience. This is also an world where adults are initiating each other into previously untested waters of treachery and betrayal. The author's writing is a laser beam of truth. A wonderful book which will become an instant classic.