OTHER BOOKS BY TOBIAS WOLFF
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
Back in the World
The Barracks Thief
In Pharaoh's Army
The Night in Question
for Michael and Patrick
I am especially grateful to my wife, Catherine, for her many careful readings of this book. I would also like to thank Rosemary Hutchins, Geoffrey Wolff, Gary Fisketjon, and Amanda Urban for their help and support. I have been corrected on some points, mostly of chronology. Also my mother thinks that a dog I describe as ugly was actually quite handsome. I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story.
My first stepfather used to say that what I didn't know would fill a book. Well, here it is.
"The first duty in life is to assume a pose. What the
second is, no one has yet discovered."
OSCAR WILDE
"He who fears corruption fears life."
SAUL ALINSKY
