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...GOLDEN ECHO (272 pp.)-David Garnett-Harcourt, Brace...
...TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE (378 pp.)-Erich Maria Remarque-Harcourt, Brace...
Faking Something. In the '403, revolt begins to taste ashy. As Dick sees it, "below rationality and reason . . . neither Brace nor I had anything. Nothing at all.'' Eager to replace nothing with something, Brace marries an earnest, straightforward Roman Catholic boy and embraces his faith. Dick goes into his father's lumber business but increasingly embraces the bottle and "used women, women who at one time had been firmly in the possession of others ... It is like buying a used car ... If you scratch it you need not feel guilty or angry . . ." When Brace finds that...
Back from World War II and faced with his and Brace's emotional bankruptcy, Dick decides that "the earth does not belong to the good, the wise or the gentle, but to the adaptable." He adapts himself to a plain Jane who wants nothing more than to give him a son and heir. But Brace has dipped too deeply into her dwindling moral capital. When a second marriage ends on the rocks, she becomes an alcoholic, finally commits suicide...
Author Rooney writes lively, intelligent dialogue, and knows well how to describe one generation pushing another over the brink of patience. But when The Courts of Memory trails Dick and Brace on their hunt for mislaid values, it becomes hard to feel sorry for characters who are already so sorry for themselves...