Dark Dreams

"You Can`t see the things at the bottom of the ocean. They Might as well not be there. But if you could roll the ocean away like a rug, then you could see everything. The things would be lying there at your feet to pick up and wipe off and look at. They would be right in your hands." This is a letter 12-year-old Carlo Santucci is writing to his father, who is fighting in WWll. Carlo is living with his grandmother now. Haunted by dark dreams and his fear of a certain neighborhood bou, Carlo befriends Joey, a grown man who is considered brain-damaged by medical standards yet to Carlo, possesses an uncommon understanding, and a courage Carlo lacks. Slowly, like "the ocean rolling away like a rug" Carlo and Joey friendship reveals the lives and them. One by one, Carl`s father, grandmother, even his dead mother, show their own secret feeling of fear, courage, and love. A strong and poetic first novel, DARK DREAMS introduces a startling talent. From Ingram.