Lack of Restraint showcases the creative range of Richard M. Baker, Jr.’s writing and his technical ability to weave from imagination a momentous story. The fluidity of his style -- like a wine’s bouquet of flavors on the palate -- blends powerful social protest with erotic suggestion. Seductive episodes will linger in readers’ dreams until admitted to consciousness.
In Lack of Restraint, Baker addresses the challenge of awakening awareness to a difficult social reality. Noting an oppressive view of teen pregnancy.

Lack of Restraint may not ring true to those with orthodox views -- it is difficult to pity reckless teens that make predictable mistakes and gripe about the consequences -- yet Baker felt a sense of obligation, expressed through main character, Reta Ellis, to protest against potentially harmful, social dispositions at a time before birth control pills, legalized abortion, sex-education and abstinence programs, and the fear of AIDs. Before such advances, the author provided a prophetic view of today’s continuing tragedy of teen pregnancy, runaways, and unwed mothers.

Provoking and impassioned, Lack of Restraint results from Baker’s propensity to write what characters say, do, think, and feel, and to portray life as he sees it - shock value notwithstanding. Available at: http://www.web-e-books.com/lack-of-restraint/index.html ( )