The Endless Search A Memoir Author:David Ray David Ray?s soul search, recounted in this powerful illustrated memoir, is a Dickensian tale ? encompassing a childhood in an orphanage, an endless series of abusive ?uncles,? and an adolescence haunted by a sadistic guardian, followed by a tumultuous adulthood marked equally by tragedy and triumph. With rare candor and unsentimentality, Ray ? w... more »inner of the William Carlos Williams Award, the Marianne Moore Award, and the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award ? writes about finding hope within a society that first generates abusers then empowers them, ignoring victims? pleas for help and enforcing their silence.« less