MacLaverty, Bernard: * 1942

Lamb, 1980 - Summary

An Irish reform school priest questions his calling as a young, epileptic runaway arrives. Each recognizes the other as kindred spirits and escape together. As police close in and money dwindles, the desperate priest makes bad decisions. "Lamb" focuses on the relationship between Brother Michael Lamb, a teacher in a Roman Catholic-run institution for troubled boys in Ireland, and 10-year-old Owen Kane, the school's most unruly pupil. Dumped into the institution by his abusive mother, Owen is an incorrigible mess who smokes cigarettes, curses, wets his bed, picks fights and has epileptic seizures.
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