This had been on my shelf for years, and I finally got around to reading it. In all my college lit classes and personal library forays as a youth, I never came across this one.

I enjoyed the story, but did find the writing a bit of a slog. Either I've been away from literature (the nice musty older stuff, that is) for too long and I've lost my edge, or this thing was just a bit wordy for my tastes.