Well done for helping fill the unpardonable void that surrounds Ted Whittemore's life and works. I first read Sinai Tapestry in the early 80s. My brother was at Auckland University at the time and it was part of a reading list for some paper or other. There's a tradition in my family whereby if you can't be bothered reading a book, but have to, you give it to another member to read and quiz them on it. I was handed Sinai Tapestry and told to report back.

I was captivated... such a moving, stirring book. Alas, I left it perched on top of a pinball machine in some pub in Auckland City one afternoon, without realising that what I was losing would prove impossible to regain. I have since scoured bookshops overseas in vain hope of discovering the meanest, beatup, coverless copy of ANY of Whittemore's works, without success.

Then I stumbled across Michael Walsh's email address at Johns Hopkins University Press and he told me he was just finalising cover art for all of the works, and that they were due to be released in August this year. I was ecstatic.
And now I discover that they're delayed until the start of 2002. Oh well. I've waited twenty years, I can wait a little longer I guess.

Anne, wonderful job. Good luck with the site... keep putting the word out. I'm hoping it's going to be easier to convince friends to read these wonderful books if I can tell them that they actually exist, are available, somewhere on earth...

Kind regards,

Laurie McIntosh