Travelling PeopleHis first novel, Travelling People, won the Gregory Award for 1963. In a preface to the book, he wrote, "I decided that one style for one novel was a convention I resented most strongly: it was perhaps comparable to eating a meal in which each course had been cooked in the same manner. The style of each chapter should spring naturally from its subject matter." Thus Travelling People employs eight separate styles for its nine chapters, including a

but no body

And as Alice dodges the ever-tightening net of the island's witch hunters

he finds himself plunged into a murder investigation

and Adeline

But with the park a jungle and a bath on the billiard table

Until he became that man accused

And then he finds the corpse of a child beside an ancient river

an American soldier wounded while fighting with the Allies in Crete

what matters is the continuing search for a means of articulating her vision and the verdict of future generations

and as December begins the situation is getting desperate

Jeff provided for their needs more than adequately

or there was this clock inside of me