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...COIN OF CARTHAGE by Bryher. 240 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...THEY SHOOK THE PLUM TREE (314 pp.)-Arfhur H. Lewis-Harcourt, Brace & World...
...this framework, Paul Brodeur blends psychological insight and historic parallel to create a portrait of the alienated man in the nuclear age. Harry Brace is not merely the familiar figure who feels estranged just from his own society. He wants out of the whole organized world...
When the fox bites a village dog and thus creates the threat of an epidemic of rabies, Brace finds himself more and more at odds with society. Contemptuous of the German authorities trying to control the disease, he strikes up a strange alliance with an itinerant shepherd and game poacher whose sheep are suspected of infection. Defending him, Brace finds himself in a shooting showdown with a posse of outraged villagers...
...novel's distinction is the rich symbolic resonances woven around Brace's disintegration. Unwillingly representing the waning influence of the U.S. in Europe, Brace is seen partly as a throwback to the last of the Roman legionnaires in Germania. Making love to a local landowner's wife, he is the incarnation of Woden offering himself to the goddess of the forest. Even the shepherd Brace defends is not merely an old reprobate but a kind of Ur-brigand descended from the race of Jacob. As for the fox: Is he a fox? He may be Brace...