cover image Tidings

Tidings

William Wharton. McGraw-Hill Companies, $5.95 (259pp) ISBN 978-0-07-069504-7

Of this story of Will, a philosophy professor whose family members bring their assorted woes to his home for a bittersweet Christmas, PW complained that the author ``never bothers to put flesh on his stick figures or write a line of authentic dialogue.'' (November)