Volume 22, Number 10 · June 12, 1975
The Power of Smokey
By Alison Lurie
Shardik
by Richard Adams
Simon and Schuster, 604 pp., $9.95
I recently spent the best part of a week reading a 600-page novel about some imaginary barbarians who worship an imaginary bear. This is not the sort of thing I would ordinarily do, but I remembered how two years ago I was equally reluctant to start a 400-page book about a tribe of rabbits, and how wrong I was then. By now, over a million people have read Watership Down; for many it is a modern classic.
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