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(More customer reviews)I can't claim to have as good a memory of my early years as the author seems to possess, but after reading his book I find that I do remember that world of grass, bugs and earth, of up-close perfect timelessness. As an adult I've taken meditation classes that try to impart the ability to live in the present, in the big Now. "Childhood" brings that lesson home; it reminds me that we're all born with this ability...and then somehow we lose it. Reading this book shows how we lose it...the struggle to hold onto that unique `myself' we're each born with. Hartleys' writing style is more than a good story, it's an experience.
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Childhood is a true story.The world in which the child finds himself is one of vivid and wondrous beauty, and ugliness too, that thrills with its suggestion of evil.School proves difficult.Neither parent is ever satisfied, not even with passing.Military school faces him at age eleven.Fun with girls leads to an obsession with sex and daring escapades.However, the cadet's growing sense of abandonment imposes a death sentence upon him:he envisions a hanging.A shadow looming, this hanging spells trouble. To parents who are stunned, outraged, and deeply saddened he returns.The child survives, most of him does.We donot leave childhood without sacrificing something.At the very end, he is saved in a way that is not unexpected, yet still astonishing.
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