Books
January, 1980
When Dalton Trumbo died in 1976, he left behind an unfinished novel--one he had been working on for 16 years. While he was alive, he kept busy writing such screenplays as Exodus, Papillon and Lonely Are the Brave and treated the novel as a kind of treasured hobby. Now editor Robert Kirsch has put the novel as it stood at the time of Trumbo's death together with the author's notes to create Night of the Aurochs (Viking). Aurochs (the title refers to a European bison, now extinct) is the fictional...