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The Road Through the Wall

Everyone knew the residents of Pepper Street were "nice" people — especially the residents themselves. Among the self-satisfied group were: Mrs Merriam, the sanctimonious shrew who was turning her husband into a nonentity and her daughter into a bigoted spinster; Mr Roberts, who found relief from the street's unending propriety in shoddy side-street amours; Miss Fielding, who considered it more important to boil an egg properly than to save a disturbed girl from destruction. It took the gruesome act of a desperate boy who lived among them to pierce the shell of their complacency and force them to see their own ugliness.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 220
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780445031289
  • Settings
  • United States of America
  • Genres
  • fiction, horror, classics, gothic, literature, novels, american
  • Release date
  • 1976