The Season of the Witch Author:James Leo Herlihy The novel centers around Gloris Randon, the witch. Gloria is seventeen and has run away from home, and is on the run with her boyfriend John who is evading the draft. Tough, inocent,and shewd, she goes to N.Y.with her complete unshockability and lack of self-pity. The results are , bizarre,comic,and profoundly moving