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318 pp.
| NYRB |
November, 2014 |
TradeISBN 978-1-59017-783-9$17.95
|
EbookISBN 978-1-59017-803-4 New ed.
(2)
4-6
Two separately published books--The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris (1971, Pantheon) and The Night of the Comet (1979, Delacorte)--are here combined in one volume. In her Horn Book review of Comet, Ethel Heins said: "A delicious literary concoction bubbling along with the author's perfect sense of dramatic timing and with his mixture of earthy humor and effervescent wit."
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
April, 1972;
February, 1980