cover image Orphans

Orphans

Eilleen Simpson, Eileen Simpson. Plume Books, $8.95 (259pp) ISBN 978-0-452-26060-3

Simpson, a psychotherapist and author of Poets in Their Youth, examines her own orphanhood as well as the role of orphans in history, film and literature. ""This is a sensitive, illuminating exploration of a many-sided subject,'' reported PW. (July)