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...days of Congressman Hodge, an upright late 19th century liberal with a smile that could make the corn grow and the voters turn out at the polls. Taggert Hodge's search for vengeance triggers the series of jailbreaks, murders and accidents that pass for plot and which, like Faulkner, Gardner feeds his public in small chunks to keep them turning pages. What matters, of course, are the Hodges themselves, whose various minds and lives Gardner inhabits for hours, days and years until, when the book is at its best, the reader breathes in their world, feels their heartbeats...
...detailed list of characters. He pokes fun at 20th century realism by attaching a death certificate at the end of the book. No one should be fooled-or disappointed. For what we have here is not realism, but natural supernaturalism turned loose on middle America. Imagine Winesburg, Ohio or Faulkner's Sartor is as they might have been written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Bulging with genius and philosophy, the poet paints the dusty jailhouse and the bumptious mayor of Batavia, N.Y. He records the hairs in the disappointed husband's stew, quotes upbeat statistics from the Reader...
...When I began it I had no plan at all. I wasn't even writing a book." That observation by William Faulkner was made in 1933 as part of an introduction to an edition of his first major novel, The Sound and the Fury. The edition never appeared, and Faulkner's 1,200-word preface lay unpublished until the University of South Carolina's James B. Meriwether found the long-missing first page among the novelist's papers and turned the manuscript over to the Southern Review. According to Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury...
...shows that British patience with Ulster's warring factions is running out. Nevertheless, it is so carefully put together that almost everybody-except the most uncompromising Catholics and Protestants, such as the Irish Republican Army and the Ulster Vanguard-seemed to find something in it to respect. Brian Faulkner, Protestant leader of Ulster's dominant Unionist Party, said that the paper contained "clear and logical proposals." John Hume, a Bogside Catholic member of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, thought it showed "the first glimmerings of reality." Prime Minister Jack Lynch of the Republic of Ireland called...
Threaded through such stories is a mixed garland of parodies, including Faulkner (Requiem for a Noun), Elizabeth Bowen ("Tennyson, Anyone?") and Ring Lardner, who is sent up in the guise of a Little League manager writing home in You Know Me, Alice...