![]() ![]() “Harvest Home” is headed for the same destination. I hadn't read “The Other” at the time, and I'm afraid I still haven't: after slogging dutifully but with rapidly‐rising irritation through 150 pages of the paperback edition (“Six Months on The New York Times Best Seller List,” the jacket boasts), I chucked it into the trash basket. was connected to an operator in New Jersey, to whom gave the address and the message “Send on the Tryon.” she said. ![]() ![]() When the Book Review asked me to review “Harvest Home,” I called Western Union to wire acceptance. He is so big that his fame reaches into unlikely corners of American life. It is only Thomas Tryon's second novel, but his first was such a smashing best seller that he got $625,000 for the paperback rights to this one before its hardcover publication. Reviewing “Harvest Home” is essentially an exercise in futility: people are going to buy it by the truckload, and presumably read it, no matter what is said about it. ![]()
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