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My Heart Leaps Up (Chapters 1 and 2 Booklet Series No 24)

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This is Ray's autobiography, except that he does not appear anywhere in it as a character.
It is a semi-fictionalized account of the time and place he grew up in,
the people he grew up with (volume one, MY HEART LEAPS UP, concerns Tulsa, Oklahoma
in the 1920's as seen through the eyes of a group of schoolchildren), and the things he saw during his life.
It is without a doubt the best of the Lafferty books coming out from the
small press, and someday Chris may even get around to finishing all
four volumes.

If you are new to Lafferty, the place to start is with one of the collections, either LAFFERTY IN ORBIT or the
older collections like 900 GRANDMOTHERS or STRANGE DOINGS or RINGING CHANGES that
you might be able to find in second-hand shops. The best novels to start with
would be REEFS OF EARTH, SPACE CHANTEY (rare Ace double from the '60s), SINDBAD, ANNALS OF KLEPSIS,
PAST MASTER (his best-known, but not the easiest read), ARCHIPELEGO (OP small press book), THE DEVIL IS DEAD,