Foreword
David was not much of anything-sexually-in the beginning of his story; he was merely a grown man of twenty-four who had the mentality of a sixteen-year-old, but who wanted to be a man as much as any other.
His brother Richie provided an example of sorts-he and his girl friend made it constantly in the privacy of his own car, surrounded by the familiar seclusion of the park. Richie had been involved in sexual adventures since the age of fifteen, when he'd surprised and hurt his older brother by telling him all about it. David, in his own pain, manufactured wild stories to tell Richie about his own alleged sexual affairs.
But David had a real piece of woman waiting for him-it just took him a long time to discover her. Mrs. Walters, one of the secretaries at work, had a liking for David that went beyond mere human compassion. Her needs in her own life exceeded those of a woman who was settled in a home with a fourteen-year-old daughter. Her needs were those of a lonely woman with sexual desires that needed satiation, and particularly needed the satiation of a young man as naive and willing as David.
David-passionately involved with Mrs. Walters-and Richie-involved in constant sexual conflict with his girl friend, Susan, move the story from climax to climax. Richie becomes engaged in a small orgy of sorts, along with Susan, his friend Mickey, and a new young thing, Linda. David not only finds himself able to love Mrs. Walters, but he gets to her daughter, too, the lovely one Vera. Vera's got a boyfriend who wants to learn a few things, and David is more than willing to help the youthful couple out.
At last he found a way to repay the world for the degradation he felt he'd had to suffer as a "Lowly" office boy. Richie, his brother, only begins his search, after loss, a terrible loss that he feels he might not be able to sustain.
The story winds the two plots together, progressing with compassion and lust towards an ending that, with victory and failure, seems to epitomize life itself.