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Summer of '42
Originally published by Putnam in 1970
Film produced by Warner Bros. Raucher nominated for Academy Award for his screenplay.
Three fifteen year old boys (the self-proclaimed “Terrible Trio”) share their last moments of innocence, one of them forever changed by his love affair with an older woman.
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“Summer of ‘42 is a charming and tender novel… The overall effect is one of high hilarity. Raucher is a comic-artist who is able to convey the fears and joys…of the boy and at the same time give older a readers a wrench in the heart. ” – Publishers Weekly
“This account of a fifteen year old Brooklyn boy’s induction into the ranks sings beautifully indeed…By leavening his four-letter prurience with some highly romantic pathos, Raucher has written a pop masterpiece: a dirty book that makes the reader feel clean.” – The Washington Post
A Glimpse of Tiger
Originally published by Putnam in 1972
Janice "Tiger" McAllister, a 19-year-old college dropout and runaway from middle America, becomes the lover and partner in crime of Luther, a suave, goofy, 30-something con artist in Manhattan.
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“An utterly different contemporary love story.” – Publishers Weekly
“A brilliant job… of creating two zany characters who live in a fantasy world on the very edge of reality…Bright and cleverly told.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch
There Should Have Been Castles
Originally published by Delacorte in 1978
A writer who can’t seem to make it falls for a dancer who can’t miss in 1950’s Manhattan and Hollywood through the letters they exchange before they ever meet.
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“Quite simply a wonderful novel, tender, warm, humorous…poised to repeat the popular success of Summer of ’42.” – Bookviews
“A rapturous sex castle.” – Publishers Weekly
Maynard's House
Originally published by Putnam 1979
A young war vet struggling to embrace the ancient, isolated Maine house bequeathed to him by his killed-in-action confidante finds himself locked in battle with supernatural forces, guided only by the ghostly warnings of his slain friend.
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“An unsettling experience. Miles above the occult sludge recently pouring from publishing houses… confounding, touching and well-written.” – The New York Times Book Review
"It's not only the Maine winter that'll raise goosebumps in this tale...First-rate haunted-house creepiness." – Kirkus