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...hard to retell this story without commonplaces about the sporting British and their plucky amateurism. In her new novel The Birthday Boys (Carroll & Graf; 189 pages; $18.95), Beryl Bainbridge imagines the icebound band as the last gentlemen of the Edwardian Age. After them the deluge: two world wars, a lost generation and a crumbling empire...
This means that the book's action is comfortingly predictable. Sleazy Clive Jr., the conniving savings and loan president, will try to get his 80-year-old mother Miss Beryl to sign over her house to him, but since Miss Beryl's role is to be the Smartest Person in Town, she won't. the novel's hero, Sully, a 60-year-old handyman with a bad knee, will enact Good Guy Without a Grain of Sense. Sully's sidekick Rub plays Loyal Shortie with the Brain of a Beagle. The lawyer Wirf, representing Sully in a workmen's comp...
CREATORS: STEVE REICH, BERYL KOROT...
...week at the Vienna Festival, is hardly a conventional opera. Based on videotaped interviews with Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem, and with Americans in New York City and Austin, Texas, it is a three-act, multimedia, audiovisual collaboration between the pioneering minimalist composer and his wife, the video artist Beryl Korot. By turns fascinating and frustrating, The Cave, which will have other performances this year in Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Brooklyn, Paris and Brussels, stands on its own as a breakthrough piece for Reich and a tantalizing glimpse of what opera might be like in the 21st century...
This novel comes to the U.S. trailing clouds of glory. On Oct. 16 A.S. Byatt's Possession won the Booker Prize, Britain's most ballyhooed and prestigious literary award, for the year's best novel, beating out works by such well-known nominees as Brian Moore, Beryl Bainbridge and Mordecai Richler. Three days later, in Dublin, Byatt picked up the Irish Times/Aer Lingus international fiction prize. The take from both awards added up to about...