Saint Gloria & The Troll

Saint Gloria & The TrollMy second book, Pages from a Cold Island, didn't work because it was so unrelievedly desolate that, despite its humor, I was sure the reader couldn't turn back the final page (allowing he got that far) without wondering whence I'd mustered the will to put together its 480 pages of typescript. And in Ms. Gloria Steinem--and I'd all but leapt from my bed in exaltation when the possibility began to form itself in my mind--I'd seen the metaphor to lift the pages from the gloo...