Posted on 23/10/04
Pen pals
AlphabetBy Kathy PageWeidenfeld & Nicolson, 261 pages, $29.95There is one unforgettable scene in Roger Caron's prison memoir, Go Boy! Locked in a "punishment cell," Caron teaches himself to write, spelling out words on his floor with jellybeans he receives in a Salvation Army Christmas bag. His first words are innocuous: COW. DOG. CAT. But when he makes PIG, the guards, watching him through an observation grill on his cell's roof, go ballistic. "They beat me so bad that now when I comb my hair, the comb goes bump bump bump" Caron said, speaking of his "rehabilitation" years ago, in Kingston.
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