I would have fired me. I felt like a murderer. That was 1937. It wasn't until 1959, when we moved to Mexico, that I could really enjoy pork again. For the first few years it like trying to eat roast actor. As a result of his first few novels, all of them strikingly original in either content or manner of telling, Condon had become not only famous, with reviews in all the major media such as "The New York Times", "Time", and "Newsweek", but also something of a literary cult figure. By the time "Rossenarra" was published, however, his reputation had slipped so much that its only mention in any of these three outlets was a notice of its appearance in "A Listing of Recently Published Books" in the "New York Times" of May 30, 1973.