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...Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and Samuel Richardson. As readers grew more sophisticated, authors in England and the U.S. felt less obliged to offer fiction in the guise of fact. But the tradition of the imaginary autobiography has continued to attract notable writers from Dickens and Twain to Salinger and Bellow. In the right hands, the old trick of the sham document can still inspire belief and wonder. The Tree of Life comes from the right hands...
This routine is violently interrupted by the arrival of Stanley's son Steve. The young man, whom his father has not seen for some time, has begun behaving oddly. He rips up Susan's copy of Saul Bellow's novel Herzog. He pays a call on his mother and hurls an ashtray into the TV set. He tells Stanley that Old Testament patriarchs are spying on him. Stanley phones Cliff Wainwright, a doctor and an old friend, and asks for help with Steve: "I'm afraid he's mad." This judgment is confirmed by Dr. Alfred Nash, a crusty...
This thriller carries heavy baggage: encomiums from Nobel Laureates Saul Bellow and Czeslaw Milosz. But Richard Lourie is equal to the burden. First Loyalty has a compelling cast and a labyrinthine plot that twists from Siberia to the Bronx. Perhaps the most odious individual is the exiled dissident poet Evgeny Shar. To him crime is just "politics without the excuses." His nemesis, Writer David Aronow, scrapes by translating "the endless memoirs of people from countries where nothing ever worked out well." KGB Colonel Anton Vinias, responsible for instigating Western soccer riots, believes reality is simply "documentary footage, crying...
...example, Professor of Law Gary Bellow said, if a woman comes into the Legal Services Center claiming that her husband is beating her, a law student would consult the computer to find out what types of information are needed to proceed properly...
Though the names of the novel's characters have the ring of Restoration comedy, Money owes much of its drive to contemporary American fiction. Unlike most British novelists, Amis projects a large and raucous vision. He seems to have learned his heightened personal voice from Saul Bellow, the humorous uses of inverted logic from Joseph Heller and his naughty bits from Philip Roth. In fact, Self can be just as shocking and funny as Alexander Portnoy, an accomplishment not likely to go unnoticed. Amis' new novel should have feminists calling for blood and entertainment packagers trying to raise the ghost...