praise
"...warm and brilliant novel." --Chicago Tribune
about the author
Thomas Williams (November 15, 1926 – October 23, 1990) published 8 novels and 2 short story collections. He taught at the University of New Hampshire for years. He won one U.S. National Book Award for Fiction—The Hair of Harold Roux split the 1975 award with Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers—and his last published novel, Moon Pinnace (1986), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.