A Funny Thing Happened

From: The Washington Post | Date: July 28, 1991| Author: Howard Waldrop | Copyright information

THE WALLED ORCHARD

Volume Two in

The Walled Orchard Series

By Tom Holt

Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's. 290 pp. $17.95

WHEN WE last left Eupolis of Pallene, a minor comic dramatist, in Tom Holt's Goatsong, he was standing on the dock watching the great fleet sail away on what was supposed to be the 5th-century B.C. Athenian equivalent of Operation Desert Storm against Syracuse.

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