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...first novel, A Separate Peace, is brief and limited in the breadth if not the depth of the experience it describes. Its author is always in perfect control of style and structure. Its theme is the death of innocence; a prep-school boy moves to the disillusion of adulthood by causing, in a half-willed way, the death of his best friend. It is a book that rings in the mind long after the reader has finished it, whose reverberations fill a shape far larger than the one set down on paper. Knowles's second book, Morning in Antibes...
...began by describing the Creep as "a person who is falling to become a mature adult by deviating in the direction of 'weirdness' and weakness.'" The Creep is shy, unstylish, and awkward. He does not aspire to the sophistication and assertiveness of the "adulthood ideal...
Many people can tolerate all sorts of psychological experience with few ill effects. There is also a large group of persons who are more profoundly affected by experiences particularly at certain times of life including late adolescence and even early adulthood. The people whose systems of controls have not yet completely integrated and who may be influenced by certain experiences are all too often the same people who most ardently seek out such experiences. They are also the same people whose tendency may be to repeat experiences almost involuntarily, in either objective or psychic reality, even if the repetition...
...Soft-Focus School of fiction. The events of her stories and novels are not so much perceived as vaguely apprehended, looming unexpectedly through an ambiance of feeling. In her oblique vision the disappointments of childhood are glimpsed in a puddle of frozen gutter water, the fears of adulthood suggested by the sharp, metallic smell of a nearly defunct streetcar line. The method can be tedious, but in her second novel, New Orleans-born Author Grau proves again that in the hands of a first-rate storyteller the shortest route between fact and feeling is not necessarily the straight line...
...flower pot. The battle continues in Germany after the war. Her father is now a general in command of a force of French occupation troops, so she naturally sews his medals to the seat of his pants. Living in a near-demented world of make-believe, she grows to adulthood near crazy with rage at her wasted, loveless youth...