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PUBLISHER: DOUBLEDAY; 572 PAGES...
PUBLISHER: DOUBLEDAY; 462 PAGES...
...they don't pay you for that. Where Jackie Gleason really was the Great One, as he called himself with no undue bashfulness, was as the bus driver Ralph Kramden in his long- rerunning TV show, The Honeymooners. In THE GREAT ONE: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF JACKIE GLEASON (Doubleday; $22.50), Time's theater critic, William A. Henry III, sorts amiably through the maze of lies the funnyman wove around his tangled life, including one woozy story about two newlyweds and Gleason, all drunk, and a goat that may have been sober...
Last year's winner of Britain's esteemed Booker Prize, THE FAMISHED ROAD (Doubleday; $22.50), is a long, winding allegorical novel that draws no line between fact and fantasy. The Nigerian-born, London-based Ben Okri explores the spiritual interior of an African nation struggling to reconcile its traditions with modern dislocations. Sorcerers, ghosts and two-legged dogs mingle with villagers and politicians in this hallucinatory narrative that reconnects Nigeria to its origins. Okri's uncompromising vision and verbal energy carry him swiftly through 500 pages. The reader too moves along, although a little less magic and a bit more...
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