cover image Speed

Speed

Mark Harris. Warner Books, $5.99 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-446-36211-5

In a poignant coming-of-age novel set in the second quarter of this century, the narrator recalls his younger brother, Speed, whose athletic and intellectual abilities were undermined by a disabling stutter. ``True to period details and his narrator's emotions, Harris shows us that life replete with success in love and work can yet be ruled by sorrow,'' said PW. (Sept.)