What Dillinger meant to me

DILLINGERrecreates Peters' impoverished youth in rural Wisconsin, with its now vanished worlds of fishing, butchering, deer hunting, farming, and immense poverty. Here's a boy first grapples with sex, nature, family, and religion. Above everything looms the menacing, desirable figure of the gangster John Dillinger who was ambushed by the FBI near Peters' home.