Volume 35, Number 2 · February 18, 1988
Underground Artist
By Alison Lurie
WORKS BY WILLIAM MAYNE MENTIONED IN THIS ESSAY
A Game of Dark
out of print
Salt River Times
Hamish Hamilton, £4.95
Max's Dream
Greenwillow, 88 pp., $11.75
A Parcel of Trees
out of print
While the Bell Rings
Hamish Hamilton, £4.50
Underground Alley
out of print
Earthfasts
out of print
Winter Quarters
Penguin, £1.50 (paper)
Once upon a time children's books were the black sheep of fiction; like detective stories and westerns, they were tended mainly by specialists, critics of popular culture, or nostalgic sentimentalists. In libraries they were—and still are—herded together into a separate room, or quarantined from the rest of literature in the stacks under the letters PZ.
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