Delia

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Also by Elliott Baker:

A FINE MADNESS (1964)

“One of the best comic novels to be written by an American.” —Harper’s

THE PENNY WARS (1968)

“It’s like finding a noble savage in the form of a book.” —San Francisco Chronicle

POCOCK & PITT (1971)

“To do what Baker has done here requires the blackest kind of insight into what makes man the comic and tragic creature he is, a mind that often hovers between reality and fantasy, and the willingness (one wants to say courage) to follow where fantasy takes him.” —The New York Times

UNREQUITED LOVES (1974) “One of the wisest, most cheerful books I’ve read in years.” —Newsweek

KLYNT’S LAW (1976) “Philosophical and serious, witty and erudite, wise and exciting.” —Irish Times

AND WE WERE YOUNG (1979)

“It has the virtue of reminding us on every page that decency exists. It is his finest work.” —The Times

UNHEALTHFUL AIR (1988)

“Mr. Baker is a genuine and original talent whose advent is a cause for rejoicing.” —The Atlantic Monthly

BARDOLATRY (1992)

“It is a delight, the funniest contribution to the subject with the possible exception of Mark Twain’s Is Shakespeare dead? —Warren Hope

PERCY, BOB & ASSENPOOP (1999)

“An eerily successful set of miniatures - - a new art form!” — Gore Vidal

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