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Tillich's story is called "Memory of the Morning After" and is about Louis Collin who never uses alcohol and carries a fresh pack of cigarettes because it is good psychology "to break the ice" when he meets people. Louis is a boy of modest origin and of modest imagination who in spite of such failings can perceive that the only way to get anywhere in the world is to snag the attention of the boss, to show him what a fellow with a genuine dose of ambition can really...
...this novel before, parts of it, at least, in Point of No Return. Even the town is the same-Clyde, Mass.-and the home-town kid who has made good is full of the knowledge that you can't go home again. But this time it is the boy who belonged to the town's upper crust and the girl who lived on the dreary lower-lower level. Tom had first seen Rhoda coming from a typing class, and after that there was really no other woman for him, except on the rebound. He had just sold...
Voyou & Voyant. Novelist Ullman takes up Claude's life when, at 15, the boy begins the first of his vagabond journeys, part flight, part search, that never lead him to a permanent dwelling place, never free him completely from a grim, autocratic mother. Claude is small and soft-bodied, physically still a child but already, thanks to an understanding teacher, a fast-maturing poet. He stows away on a train to Paris. Drunk with wonder, he prowls this incandescent city, perches on curbstones to scribble his poems. He sleeps on pavements and swipes food from the markets. Caught...
...seer. One day a summons comes from Paris; a friend has mailed samples of Claude's work to famed Poet Maurice Druard. The older writer leaves his wife, and with him Claude lives in a green haze of absinthe. Egged on by Druard. the 17-year-old boy becomes the merde-shouting outrage of the Left Bank...
Side by side with Dr. Eichner's misadventures runs the dewy romance of Nurse Babs Mintner and her college-boy lover. This minor theme leads to the funniest scene of an often funny novel: the seduction of featherheaded Babs which takes place one rainy night in a drive-in theater and rages through three continuous showings of Wuthering Heights. There are other comic set pieces, notably a TV quiz called What's My Disease?, where panelists triumphantly identify gruesome samples of elephantiasis, icthyosis and multiple goiter...