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...RAND McNALLY ATLAS OF THE OCEANS Rand McNally; 208 pages...
...James Atlas ∙ The Diaries of Evelyn
NONFICTION: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames Coming into the Country, John McPhee Delmore Schwartz, James Atlas The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie Dispatches, Michael Herr Best Sellers...
That descent never came. What happened to the promise, the flamboyant charm? With care and intelligence, James Atlas chronicles a decline as moving as it is horrifying. By the time Schwartz reached 30 his center could no longer hold. He had started to drink heavily. His marriage broke up. One day in 1947, suddenly and finally, he left Harvard, convinced of his double exile from the American Dream: as a poet...
...scene of a second marriage-an abandoned New Jersey farm, where through overgrown fields he wandered, calling the name of a long-lost cat. The badly aged Wunderkind died of a heart attack in a Times Square-area hotel while struggling downstairs with his garbage. The measure of Atlas' biography is that he does not exploit the implications of that curtain scene. With admirable restraint he suggests that Schwartz was a lyric poet who insisted on being an epic poet: given that divergence, tragedy was the only possible outcome...