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The Season of the Witch

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Author
  
James Leo Herlihy

Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1971

Country
  
United States

Publisher
  
Simon & Schuster (USA)

Media type
  
Print (hardback & paperback)

The Season of the Witch is a novel by James Leo Herlihy. The story is written in the form of a journal that spans three months in the life of teenage runaway Gloria Glyczwych during the autumn of 1969.

Plot summary

Gloria decides to run away from home with her gay friend John McFadden. Both of them have a reason to leave: Gloria wants to find her estranged father, and John wants to avoid joining the Army and being sent to Vietnam. They head from Michigan to New York City, where they meet a host of colorful characters. The novel explores the personal freedoms of the late 1960s, including casual drug use, draft evasion, and homosexuality, and beyond that, to incest.

References

The Season of the Witch Wikipedia