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...from nostalgia. Many people would like to project themselves at first hand, exchanging-for half an hour -their self-cleaning ovens for the black, bulbous wood stove that squats in the Ericksons' kitchen, and their disaster-crammed TV screens for the lean prospect glimpsed from the Olsons' attic window. Small wonder, then, that Wyeth's critics have dismissed "the other Andy" (as one of them, thinking of Warhol, called him) as a fabulist, and his images as a sentimental mix of frontierland and Cold Comfort Farm. The objection is almost political...
...answer questions," British Novelist Richard Hughes once said. "It's fiction's business to ask them." Yet Hughes is trying to have it both ways in his long multivolume historical novel about the roots of World War II, which began with The Fox in the Attic in 1962. He puts his imaginary characters through the usual novelistic hoops-love affairs, deaths, getting and spending. At the same time he trundles on historical figures like Hitler and Lloyd George to go through well-documented paces -speeches, rivalries, rises and falls from power. Fiction jostles with nonfiction, and questions...
...they? The scheme worked well enough in The Fox in the Attic...
...electric transformers, and firebombing stores. According to FBI Informer William Lemmer, those bizarre, bloody plans to disrupt the Republican National Convention last year were hatched by a group of Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. Lemmer says he attended a secret meeting in May 1972 in a Gainesville, Fla., attic, where plans for the disruption were discussed and the plotters demonstrated the use of crossbows, carbines and explosives...
...wife, visits his aging mother at her candy store, and unsuccessfully attempts to comfort a divorcee whom he picked up at a middle-aged singles dance. Benson's is a life lived at half-staff. The flags are high and snapping only in his imagination, a quaint attic of '30s and '40s swing tunes, names and faces from old copies of Photoplay, World War II stories and oddments of history...