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In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts A Memoir
Author: Neil White
ISBN-13: 9780061351600
ISBN-10: 0061351601
Publication Date: 6/1/2009
Pages: 336
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  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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3.7 stars, based on 13 ratings
Publisher: William Morrow
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 2
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usseryron avatar reviewed In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir on + 10 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Good read. White's autobiographical morality tale offers an educational look at the last 100 years of leprosy in this country through his sentencing for a white collar crime to the prison adjacent to a Leper Colony on the Louisiana-Mississippi border. Well written intertwining of a Southern boy's come uppance after he tried too hard to keep up an impression of success along with the story of our society's treatment of lepers.
reviewed In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir on + 8 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Interesting, but I could feel the author's ulterior motive all through the book - use prison time to write book make money. Left a bad taste in my mouth.
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Helpful Score: 1
A remarkable, true story about a young man's loss of everything he deemed important and his discovery as to what matters most. His description of the isolated colony in Carville, Louisiana and the people that lived there were interesting. It was a piece of history that I did not know existed in the United States. I knew and studied the colony for people disfigured by leprosy on Molokai, Hawaii but the Carville colony was actually in the continental US.
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