Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago by two aristocratic demoiselles - Countess Marthe de la Rochefoucauld, 28, and Mademoiselle Claude de Clermont-Tonnerre, 24. Says Marthe: "The idea came to me when I was in New York and heard Americans complain about the difficulties - and the coldness - they found in France." She recruited her cousin Claude and a dozen other sang-bleu friends to provide chic and cheery guidance for foreigners in Paris...
...reader will quickly recognize him as a literary cousin of Holden Caulfield...
...mean I recognized the goddam kid right away. He's my Jewish-Indian literary cousin Joe Hosea, the one who got thrown out of prep school in Bombay because the phonies thought he was trying to burn down the school. A very big deal. I mean all he did was drop a match in a pile of wood shavings in the carpentry shed. Then my literary aunt and uncle packed him off to military school. Way off in the Himalayas, for Chrissake...
This hell of a book about my cousin was written by some English writer named Aaron Judah. It is the second of three novels on the Hosea family, but the first to be printed in the U.S. For this one, Judah got a Dial Press Fellowship Award for Fiction, whatever that is. The publisher says it's to encourage young authors. Judah is 43 already, for Chrissake. It's supposed to be goddam secret how much the fellowship pays, but the fact is Dial gave this Judah less than a thousand dollars. That's not very encouraging...
Such childhood reminiscences are the best part of this slight memoir by Nicholas Roosevelt, whose father James West Roosevelt was T.R.'s first cousin and closest friend. While he brings no new insights on T.R., the author, now 73, nevertheless contributes to history by setting down recollections that nobody else could have supplied...