THE WONDERFUL O (72 pp.)James ThurberSimon & Schusfer ($3.50).
Captain Black, a monomaniacal pirate, abhors the letter 0. "I've had a hatred of that letter ever since the night my mother became wedged in a porthole.'' he explains. "We couldn't pull her in so we had to push her out."
With this darkling confidence, readers are off on a voyage into the vast punumbra inside Humorist Thurber's head. Nothing is credible, yet all might have happened at any moment between waking and sleeping. Black and his beastly pirate crew land on the island of Ooroo ("It sounds like the eyes of a couple...
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