Ape and Essence
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: June 1972
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780060831004
Subjects: Fiction
First sentence: IT WAS the day of Gandhi's assassination; but on Calvary the sightseers were more interested in the contents of their picnic baskets than in the possible significance of the, after all, rather commonplace event they had turned out to witness.