New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - Young adult novel of an oddly assorted trio. Miss Eunice Tichenor, a spinsterlibrarian/scholar, subway rider Snake (aka "Dr. I.R.T."), a black Yale drop-out and draft. dodger, who writes songs, and Umberto, a young Mexican student who discovers that "the city's a wonderful if filthy and occasionally terrifying 'total learning experience'." (Kirkus) Tanner's husband was the author of the Auntie Mame novels under the pseudonym of Patrick Dennis. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-698107306.