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...WALK, by John Hersey. A deft portrayal of the collegiate scene more than compensates for Author Hersey's too-clever tale of a sophomore who sells his soul to the Devil...
...WALK, by John Hersey. Author Hersey's Faustian tale of a sophomore who temporarily becomes the Devil's man rates only a B-, but his pitiless portrait of today's collegiate scene earns him an easy...
...rude awakening traditional to upper-class English boys. Sent off to Lancing, a public school near Brighton, he found himself scrapping for perks with a pack of young snobs in full cry. He hated it, but in self-defense he repressed his homesickness and began to play the devil with his wit. At Oxford, where wit and atheism made him fashionable, he drank like a drain, hobbed with the nobs, japed and scraped his way through 2½ years of invaluable idleness. He wrote little but he peered at the peerage, at the descendants of the knights and ladies...
...WALK, by John Hersey. Though his fictional sense is slightly askew, Author Hersey's finely tuned reportorial ear is near perfect in this Faustian spoof about a morose sophomore who temporarily strikes a bargain with the Devil...
...list includes such films as Beat the Devil, Citizen Kane, Birth of a Nation, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Duck Soup...