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...Love, published last year in the U.S., Troyat tenderly recounted the provincial courtship of Amelie Aubernat and Pierre Mazalaigue in the early 1900s. As this sequel opens, it is 1915. Pierre is a World War I infantry corporal at the front, while Amelie is struggling to run their Paris cafe, tend her infant daughter, and discipline her young brother, Dennis, who ricochets from the arms of a blowzy cashier to the inviting lingerie of a young laundress...
...book's end, the war is over for the Mazalaigues: badly wounded Pierre is back home; ambitious Amelie has taken an option on an even bigger cafe in Montmartre. Their daughter is growing into a beauty, and Author Troyat has enough sympathetic characters to carry him through at least a dozen more novels. Troyat, in this volume, is writing of Frenchmen who were still supremely confident of the future; reading it is a little like watching an unsuspecting man walk into a pleasant field sown with land mines...
...conducted at the opera house he wore high leather boots, took them off in the middle of the performance. During rehearsal, he became so enraged at a violinist that he grabbed the man's violin and smashed it over his head. Nightly, at the city's cafes, he scolded waiters, flirted with local beauties and pounded out jazz on the cafe piano...
...khaki-clad man stepped from a black car, slipped a leather-strapped machine gun from his shoulder, and me thodically began pumping bullets into the customers. On Avenue Kleber, an elegantly dressed man unlimbered a machine gun and raked customers and passers-by on the terrace of the Cafe de Palmarium. Total casualties in Sidi-bel-Abbes' 30 minutes of terror: eight dead, 17 wounded...
...music industry, whether they are guests on the show or not. Some typical Faye autopsies: Eddie Fisher "sings with as much animation as a dead fish"; Elvis Presley is "a bouncing orangutan, a musical degenerate"; Tab Hunter's "squeak is a travesty, a horror." Of his own sister. Cafe Singer Frances Faye, he cracked: "She's really not my sister; she's my father...