SOURCE: “Seven Types of Ambiguity,” in The New York Times Book Review, August 9, 1998, p. 13.

In the following review of a new edition of Bertram Cope's Year, Conarroe deems Fuller's novel an entertaining and worthwhile read.

Nobody asks, and Bertram Cope certainly doesn't tell. The result? No fewer than six people, representing both sexes and various ages and backgrounds, make a Midwestern university's newly arrived instructor the object of their affection—or, more accurately, of their “longing admiration.” This unwitting heartbreaker even manages an accidental engagement to one especially ardent member of the infatuated sextet, and nearly commits himself to a couple of others. Fortunately for all parties, no wedding bells ring.

Bertram Cope's Year is an entertaining satirical novel (set in a thinly camouflaged Evanston, Ill.) that was written and self-published nearly 80 years ago by a once well-regarded but now nearly forgotten Chicago novelist and poet, Henry Blake...