Books

February, 1976

Imagine half a life spent behind stone walls and steel bars--a life of confinement without the ameliorating rage that can carry someone like Solzhenitsyn through the ordeal of the Gulag. You've earned your time and you are left to watch the slow deterioration of your own soul. You can reach an insupportable pitch of self-loathing or you can do the very hardest thing: change. Malcolm Braly changed, after spending 18 of his 40 years in institutions. His autobiography is called False Starts, A Memo...