SOURCE: A review of The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata, in Los Angeles Times Book Review, November 5, 1989, p. 6.

Harris is a Canadian journalist and author whose bestseller, Justice Denied: The Law Versus Donald Marshall (1986), is the true account of a seventeen-year-old Micmac Indian who was sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder he did not commit. In the following review, Harris offers high praise for The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata.

The reader of a novel is like a young man from the provinces who arrives in the big city gawking, suitcase in hand. What adventures will befall him? Romance? A mugging? The main thing is that they start soon. The veteran Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares, best known for The Dream of Heroes and his collaborations with Borges, doesn't disappoint [in The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata]. He begins: "Around five...