Word: author
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curiosity, and when he passed before him, the great explorer bowed deeply while receiving the papal benediction." No story ran then because it was not an official audience. But now it could be told: L'Osservatore was reviewing a new book, Buffalo Bill, True and False, by Italian Author Giuseppe Rivarola...
...novel concerning a. Nazi and a Jew would seem to offer about as much chance for originality these days as a cowboy-and-Indian movie. Nonetheless, the Austrian-born English author of Czar and Journey of a Man has managed to produce an extraordinary book about that very relationship. Thomas Wiseman's study of two Austrians-Stefan Kazakh, a half-Jew, and Konrad Wirthof, a wholehearted Nazi-is a brilliant tour de force of rare psychological depth and complexity...
...author put huge difficulties in the way of his intention, which is simply to tell about the family of Harvey Whipple, a New Hampshire businessman, from the beginning of World War II through the first postwar years. He hit upon the unfortunate scheme of writing what seem to be fragments of separate novels about each member of the family and then cobbling the pieces together. There are simply too many pieces; the family includes, besides Whipple and his wife, three teen-age sons and a daughter, a young girl boarder and a cat. The human characters are led through...
...over, breaks them, hurts himself. "In the kitchen he was carefully watched, and at the Whipples' round dining table, the chairs were always arranged so that Horace's arc of space was several degrees wider than the others'." With a few simple and subtle strokes, the author shows that Horace is not funny, as he seemed at first, or merely lovable, as he seemed next, but a boy who has stumbled to the very edge of sanity-and of life...
...things turn out, Horace dwindles into one of the author's plot devices. He kills a man and is hunted by a posse in a series of scenes that are not good Williams but bad Faulkner. This is disappointing, but perhaps not important. The counterfeit Faulkner fades, and Horace stays stingingly in the mind, along with much else from Williams' uneven but intriguing fourth novel...