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CASTLE KEEP, by William Eastlake. A medieval castle in the Ardennes is occupied by a decadent count, his child-wife, and a bumbling, boondoggling bunch of G.I.s who find themselves squarely in the path of the German thrust for Bastogne. Interweaving satire, tragedy and gothic mystery, Novelist Eastlake has created a small, surreal masterpiece...
CASTLE KEEP, by William Eastlake. A medieval castle deep in the Ardennes Forest is occupied by a decadent count, his child-wife, and a bumbling, boondoggling bunch of G.I.s who find themselves squarely in the path of the German thrust for Bastogne. Interweaving satire, tragedy and gothic mystery, Novelist Eastlake has created a surreal small masterpiece...
They said they were minding their own business, just a bunch of guys named Roger Maris, 30, Clete Boyer, 28, Joe DiMaggio and Hal Reniff having a quiet snort in a dark bar after a hard day at the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale training camp. But Male Model Jerome Modzelewski, at the next table, says somebody tossed a wild pitch at his girl. Maris says Jerome kept damning the four Yankees. Anyhow, Modzelewski wound up with a badly cut lip, eleven stitches and the distinct impression that Maris was going for 61. He charged Roger and Clete with assault...
...family with a high, old-fashioned hand. But not without opposition. "I spin and I spin and nothing comes of it. I've had two wives, seven children, given out dowries, supported sons-in-law. It's cost me millions! And what have I got? A bunch of enemies, gluttons, parasites." His moody granddaughter, one of the new wave, reads Strindberg, rejects the suitor whom the old man selects for her. She chooses defiantly an impecunious intellectual who talks but cannot act, who admits he is "without God, without a goal, without a skill," who has spent...
...formula used in The Bridge of San Luis Rey is here applied to an odd bunch of California misfits; the catastrophe they share is the news of President Kennedy's assassination. As the shock wave reverberates through their minds, Morris reveals the cracks and flaws of personality that in his view divide Americans from one another and thus make such a senseless outrage all too understandable. The book has the makings of a strong sermon; as a novel it runs aground within 50 pages in the shallows of its eccentric cast...