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%u00a9Jack Fritscher, Ph.D., All Rights ReservedHOW TO LEGALLY QUOTE FROM THIS BOOKWhat They Did to the Kid iWINNER %u201cSTORY TELLER OF THE YEAR%u201d%u201cTOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR%u201dIndependent Publisher Magazine%u201cJack Fritscher%u2019s gift for language makes me think of the poet Dennis Cooper.%u201d %u2014Ian Young, The Body Politic, Toronto%u201cAll of this is expressed in subtle, fine writing. Fritscher is a polished writer, editing his work to the bone so that the entire mood points only to the feeling he wishes to impress on the reader. One thing for sure. This fellow is a super writer.%u201d%u2014Virginia Sink, The Tribune, Oklahoma City%u201cPowerful...outcast, and at times cruel...young men forced to shun sexuality. A distinct insight into seminary life for both Catholic and non-Catholic.%u201d %u2014John R. Selig, ForeWord magazineFiction. Fritscher. Frisson.%u201cGenres collide. Postmodern and deconstructed, What They Did to the Kid straddles genres, magically shifting shape in the reader%u2019s hands. Jack Fritscher is novelist and memoirist%u2014my favorite kind of both.%u201d %u2014Mark Hemry, editor,Chasing Danny Boy: Powerful Stories of Celtic Eros%u201cThis novel of the secret culture of priests and boys locked away in a seminary boarding school joins excellent company with Robert Musil%u2019s Young T%u00f6rless, James Joyce%u2019s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Calder Willingham%u2019s End As a Man.%u201d%u2014Harold Cox, editor, Checkmate magazine