The Story of Harold
by:
Terry Andrews (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780380499656 (0380499657)
Publish date: November 28th 1985
Publisher: Avon Books
Pages no: 388
Edition language: English
The Story of Harold was written in 1974 by ‘Terry Andrews’ – a pseudonym for the children’s author George Selden, who is most famous for his 1960 classic The Cricket in Times Square. The novel is about a suicidal man named Terry – a writer of children’s books – and it was originally illustrated by E...
I'm trying to figure out why I hated this book so virulently. I think it all comes down to the ...breathless! writing style that... Andrews (or George Selden, if the Internet is to be believed)... adopts here. Lotsa ellipses, with a heaping helping internalized homophobia, not to mention some... rea...