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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lukas, who was editing at The Crimson the night of the riot, says he remembers Halberstam and his late brother Michael '53 coming back from the Square covered in blood. But 35 years later Halberstam downplays his injuries. "I had a little tussle with the cops," the author of The Best and the Brightest says...
...Wore Red presents this unusual theater of war in compact scenes and entertaining dialogue. Says a matador out to impress the author with his knowledge of local history: "This is where the famous bandit Luis Candelas used to hide, Aline. He stole from the rich and gave to the poor -- just like your Robin Hat." The grim side of the job includes treachery and murder. To escape death at the hands of a Nazi strangler, Aline must shoot to kill. There are two happy endings to her story. She reduces the list of possible Himmler agents to a German countess...
...Longworths and their circle are vivid people. No one in this book needs money; no one is at a loss for words. But they suffer as well as sin, and their human failings are drawn with a compassion that makes the author's moral tickling tolerable. At 36, Wilson already has a formidable literary career. He peoples his little worlds lavishly, and his characters are the creations of an exceptionally alert and abundant mind. The Healing Art (1980) was an early dazzler, trenchant but somewhat raveled. Wise Virgin (1982) was perhaps his best-constructed novel. Now, in Love Unknown...
...ordinarily suggest the path of least resistance, the easiest way for a writer to capitalize on past accomplishments. Indeed, Rites of Passage marked one of the happier points of Golding's long career; it won the Booker Prize, England's most prestigious publishing award, and three years later its author received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Small wonder that Golding might want to extend a book that earned so much acclaim. The greater surprise is that he succeeds...
...reader will have grasped that I, at least, survived the voyage," Talbot writes near the end. Indeed. But "that self-confident young man who had come aboard" at the beginning of his first journal has now hardened into not only a seagoing veteran but a self-conscious author as well: "I am in half a mind to publish!" Since three volumes seem commercially more promising than two, Talbot breaks off his narrative while he and his ship hover on the brink of disaster. Unlike its predecessor, Close Quarters advertises its own sequel. And that seems well worth waiting...