HARD CANDY: Nobody Ever Flies Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2nd Edition)

By Charles A. Carroll

Book Overview

Charles Carroll and his brother, Bobby, had the misfortune of being hard-to-place foster children and New Jersey in the 1950s. So the "powers that be" simply reclassified them from "orphan" to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0985749903
• ISBN13: 9780985749903
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Bear Witness Press
• Length: 586 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.4" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Hard Candy is a first person account of a child placed in a state school for mentally disabled in 19

I read this book in 2008 when I was working at New Lisbon the institution where Charles was placed as a child. It is still around and some people placed there as children, now in their 70's and older, still live there. This book is an excellent first person account. I would recommend it to anyone in human services field and it would be a great resource for anyone researching the history of treatment of children and disabled people in state run institutions.