Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story structure and three-level retail mall next door Canizaro is a millionaire who surveys the city, which he is doing much to change, from an office chocked with multicolored hard hats (''The boys working on Canal Place gave me the blue one''); a huge book of Persian art from the Shah; scrawled notes of affection from his two daughters; and his Sicilian family coat of arms. That Canizaro could become the most talked-about young businessman between Texas and Florida in a fairly short time gives some clues to the condition of opportunity in America...
...Uncollected Stories proves that the law of diminishing returns has a loophole. Until now, only some 50 of Faulkner's short stories were available in book form. Editor Joseph Blotner has rounded up 45 more, 14 of them previously unpublished anywhere. The book as a whole rarely reaches the brilliance sustained throughout Faulkner's Collected Stories (1950). No matter. Blotner has salvaged a number of fine stories from back-issue oblivion and, in the process, presented an intriguing portrait of the artist as a commercial traveler...
...only by birth. From the time he left his home on Hungary's central plains, his only known belief was that summed up by the aphorism ''Living well is the best revenge.'' It was something he had obviously read up on in the books he devoured as a child, feeding the fantasy life that he turned into elegant reality. He took his two talented younger brothers along with him on his journey. Zoltan, saturnine and hypochondriacal, never left home without his oxygen inhaler and his health foods ("Vair is my kelp?" he once demanded...
...strong under current of melancholy in his temperament that caused him to regard all permanencies as delusions. Whatever. Michael Korda 's title is apt, and he has fashioned from his uncle's life, and from his own struggle not to become a pale copy of him, a book that is rather like one of his uncle's historical films-warm, well structured, humorous, a little larger and more roman tic than life, but underneath it all, shrewdly observed...
...Aunt Erma's Cope Book, Bombeck...