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JOSEPHINE HERBST by Elinor Langer; Atlantic-Little, Brown; 374 pages...
...Elinor Langer's evocative, infatuated biography has brought the novelist to life with her quirky charm intact. Much of the book shows her as she appeared to her friends: more spontaneous and independent than any woman of her generation had a right to be. For more than 30 years she defended the underdog in leftist journals and in novels like Rope of Gold...
...these emotionally rich roles, Calvin Levels and Marilyn Rockafellow, under Elinor Renfield's forcefully realistic, behaviorally sensitive direction, are at once strong and subtle. They are so good, in fact, that they point up the superficiality of the out-of-school lives the playwright has concocted for them. They seem to have been plucked out of sociology texts rather than absorbed from life, expanding the play's length without usefully expanding our understanding of its people. Nonetheless, the heart of the play is sound, and its beat is worth listening...
...memorial service for Metcalf, who is survived by his second wife, Elinor, and two children, will be held November 17 at Memorial Church...
...childbirth and death, from contentment to rage and guilt. The struggles, however, are not those of the girls, but of their grandmother. The girls reveal her hardships, from poverty and disastrous marriage to the sudden wealth which allowed her to buy the farm. Lil Krauss's five daughters, May, Elinor, Libby, Grace and Rachel, also come alive through the narrators; the startling distinctions amongst them, the subtle tensions, and their relationships with their husbands are brought to light under the granddaughters' watchful eyes. When the illness and subsequent death of one of the five sisters touches the family, the complex...