Hopefully your doubts are justified.* Do you happen to know when the omnibus was published?
...but that's because he hasn't been for most of my life, even when he's being published.)
Interesting. I suppose I do remember reading him mostly out of libraries. Those books might well have been printed a decade ore more before I read them. I would have hoped my younger self would check publication dates, but I suppose that if I did I've forgotten them.
ETA: The bibliography on Pinkwater's Wikipedia entry tells me that Attila the Pun: A Magic Moscow Story was published in 1981. So I suppose that when I read it it was probably four or five years old.
In the process of reading up on Pinkwater, I came across this, which I thought rather interesting. Have you seen this piece, or heard about the story?
*I feel strange defending depictions of smoking, as it's not a habit I particularly care for, but my objections to bowdlerisation and removal of period detail are far more important to me.
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Yes. I think I should re-read some of his work.
I doubt it.
Hopefully your doubts are justified.* Do you happen to know when the omnibus was published?
...but that's because he hasn't been for most of my life, even when he's being published.)
Interesting. I suppose I do remember reading him mostly out of libraries. Those books might well have been printed a decade ore more before I read them. I would have hoped my younger self would check publication dates, but I suppose that if I did I've forgotten them.
ETA:
The bibliography on Pinkwater's Wikipedia entry tells me that Attila the Pun: A Magic Moscow Story was published in 1981. So I suppose that when I read it it was probably four or five years old.
In the process of reading up on Pinkwater, I came across this, which I thought rather interesting. Have you seen this piece, or heard about the story?
*I feel strange defending depictions of smoking, as it's not a habit I particularly care for, but my objections to bowdlerisation and removal of period detail are far more important to me.