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The Season of the Witch

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The Season of the Witch
First edition
AuthorJames Leo Herlihy
LanguageEnglish
PublisherSimon & Schuster (USA)
Publication date
1971
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages384 pp (hardback edition)

The Season of the Witch is a novel by James Leo Herlihy. The story is written in the form of a journal that spans three months in the life of teenage runaway Gloria Glyczwycz during the autumn of 1969.

Plot summary

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Gloria decides to run away from home with her gay friend John McFadden. Both of them have a reason to leave: Gloria wants to find her estranged father, and John wants to avoid being drafted and being sent to Vietnam. They head from Belle Woods, a fictional suburb of Detroit, Michigan, to New York City, where they meet a host of colorful characters. The novel explores casual drug use, draft evasion, homosexuality, and incest.[1]

Notes

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  1. ^ Houston, Levin (1971-04-17), "Herlihy Captures Reader", The Free Lance–Star, Fredericksburg, Va., retrieved 2010-02-11

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