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...first issue the general invitation, "Stop me if you've heard it." But Ireland's Liam O'Flaherty, author of that fine old favorite, The Informer (which a lot of people think was written by Victor McLaglen), takes up the theme as if no O'Faolain, O'Casey or O'Flaherty had ever played a variation on it before-and in two ticks he has the frayed old harp twanging away as rich as the day it was strung...
...SUMMER IN ITALY (248 pp.)-Sean O'Faolain-Devin-Adair...
City of Flowers. Irish Catholic Sean O'Faolain (Come Back to Erin, King of the Beggars) is the latest in a long line of Northerners to make such an attempt. A Slimmer in Italy is not only an excellent, heartfelt guide to most of the principal cities of the peninsula, it is also admirably designed to salve the blows of disillusionment that many a pilgrim to Italy this Holy Year is sure to suffer. For the North-South gap is cultural as well as religious, and the new visitor to Italy had better know before he goes that though...
Headstrong Men. Many a traveler for many a century, says Author O'Faolain, has savagely refused to accept the fact that the cities of Italy "are not museums." Burgeoning with the exuberance that makes every Italian "a great, bursting bag of life," these cities have from time immemorial massacred their own beauties, thrown out long sprays of indiscriminate architectural splendor and ugliness-"gems set in pig-iron...
...rising new British author. Angus Wilson is a 36-year-old Oxford man now working in the British Museum Library in London. He has large, sad, slightly protuberant eyes, the mournful, darkling air of most younger British writers, and a considerable reputation in some unexpected quarters. Sean O'Faolain has hailed him as a writer of the first rank; Vogue says his "mind has the sudden round-the-corner surprise of Saki...