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...COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, by Warren Eyster (597 pp.; Random House; $4.95), is the slowest-starting melodrama since John Hersey covered umpteen pages before breaching The Wall. To fill his big picture of violence in a strike-torn Pennsylvania steel town, Novelist Warren Eyster starts 50 years back and paints all the ancestors as carefully as the main figures who finally dominate the canvas. Never relenting for so much as a chuckle, Novelist Eyster fastens his eye on personal as well as social change ("Irene had become a better person. She appeared to have learned that sacrifice was not necessarily...
...FROM THE CUSTOMARY SKIES (372 pp.)-Warren Eyster-Random House...
...novelist's duty to tell a story, but it is risky to retell one. Warren Eyster, 28, a Navy veteran of World War II, performs his duty fairly well in Far from the Customary Skies, a first novel about the island-hopping campaigns in the Pacific as seen from a destroyer. The trouble is that Author Eyster's book trails in the wake of half a dozen naval novels published since 1945 and never sets a clear course...
With the easy authority of a man who has lived his subject, Author Eyster steers the Dreher's crew through training and up the long ladder of South Pacific victory, from New Ireland to New Guinea, from the Solomons to the Carolines, from the Marianas to the Philippines. Between actions, in endless and high-flown bull sessions, he tries to solve the riddle of human personality as it clashes and cleaves in wartime. He does better when he gets away from the Dreher and its talky crew. He has watched the sea closely and when he keeps a bridle...
...Author Eyster ends his book well before V-J day, sends the Dreher to the bottom with nearly all hands, as the U.S. fights its way back to the Philippines. As a tale of a destroyer. Far from the Customary Skies is miles behind Marcus Goodrich's small masterpiece Delilah. As a quasipoetic documentary of arms and the sea, it pins a few surplus decorations on nature's biggest masterpiece, the Pacific Ocean...