The Long Run Author:Leo Furey From a hill above town, the Mt. Kildare Orphanage for Boys looks down on the small city of St. John's, Newfoundland. The year is 1960. The orphanage is always cold, there is never enough to eat, and the Catholic Brothers who run the home are heavy-handed in their religious discourses and harsh in their discipline.Here, a group of boys manages to... more » look out for each other and live by their own set of rules...
By day the boys are obedient students, but when the sun goes down the Care Klub rules the night; raiding the bakery;stealing sacramentsl wine; and talking endlessly about girls, sex, and the merits of Floyd Patterson vs Willie Mays.Above all, they help each other through the waves of loneliness and sadness that they all experience. Their secret society is their law and their family. When the Brothers discover the wine is missing, they go on a manhunt, offering payoffs and bribes to any boy who will rat out the culprits.
"THE LONG RUN is a ghastly wonderful journey through a pious hell run by lunatics, an antic dance of grim humor, genuine pathos, and final redeeming joy."« less