Time and place

1977, EP Dutton, NY. Hardcover title, 240 pages, fiction. The author's 3rd book. "A beautiful book, this fiercely tender story will remind us all of that sweet time before we bit the apple, of that green place before we saw the serpent." This novel involves a young man in 1952 and a love story between a high school senior and a young woman of Mexican descent. "This is a bittersweet novel about lost innocence, a tale as true and tart as an apple."

Bryan Woolley is a senior writer on the staff of The Dallas Morning News. He has won numerous awards for his journalism and has published several collections of his work. He is a past president of the Texas Institute of Letters and is a member of the Texas Folklore Society and the Texas State Historical Association. He and his wife, poet Isabel Nathaniel, make their home in Dallas.