Speaking of long books, as we were, a couple of weeks ago I
was in a Half-Price Books in Houston and saw a stack of an
edition of Charles Willeford's WILD WIVES, published by
ReSearch Publications in 1987. I bought one because my copy
of the Beacon edition is so brittle I've never read it. It
checks in at 102 pages. Hard, fast, not a wasted word. But
I'll bet it would never be published today. But then
Willeford had to sell it to Beacon in the first place, so I
guess none of the other houses would take it even in the
'50s.
Bill Crider
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