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...with no excessive charity. Chaos? Yes. Senselessness? Yes. Disintegration and despair? Be the author's guest. The dour view itself is not remarkable. Well-wrought chaos and subtly evoked senselessness have never been in such abundant literary supply. A reader thinks, with varying respect, of Mailer, Heller, Vonnegut, Cheever, Barth...
...commission does not even comment on the quality of professional care or the educational training programs," Dr. William V. McDermott, Cheever Professor of Surgery and chief medical officer at BCH, said yesterday. He added that the commission was set up by hospitals only to insure quality in the hospital's housekeeping, administration, and physical plant...
...that there is anything wrong with the grotesque. Joseph Heller, Terry Souhern, and Philip Roth are great people to have around, but the kindness that runs through Willie's Ladder and a few other recent novels (such as John Cheever's Bullet Park ) make a nice alternative to a steady acidic diet...
BULLET PARK, by John Cheever. In his usual setting of uncomfortably comfortable suburbia, Cheever stages the struggle of two men-one mild and monogamous, the other tormented and libertine-over the fate...
...Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (2) 3. Ada, Nabokov (3) 4. The Godfather, Puzo (4) 5. Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut (6) 6. Except for Me and Thee, West (7) 7. The Andromeda Strain, Crichton (8) 8. The Goodbye Look, Macdonald 9. The Salzburg Connection, Maclnnes (5) 10. Bullet Park, Cheever...