Without End , about a group of runaway slaves on the Suwannee River who take refuge among Florida's Seminole Indians. He sold his first short story to the New Yorker when he was 21 years old and still at Harvard, then went off to join the Israeli Air Force and the British Merchant Navy in the 1970s. I worry when I have students who don't seem to be real readers.
English politeness can be unbearable.
They're all doing it too. He's best known for his Poldark Series, a batch of novels about a late-18th century Cornwall family. Before that, the recipient had to pay to get a letter, and many letters were thus refused and had to be sent back. The new postage stamp meant the sender would pay-and they were a big hit. Her new novel, The Honey Thief , comes out next month.