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...Fever Pitch, by David Caute. For obvious reasons, British writers are tops when it comes to describing disintegrating empires. The locale in this fine first novel is Africa...
...novel opens, he is 37, newly successful, about to marry a blonde Hollywood starlet, and already suffering the physical penalties of literary lionization-"the bloaty softness of his face, the bat's-flesh bags under his eyes." From that high or low point, Novelist Cassill traces the fever chart of Clem's fatal illness-his life-in an intricate series of flashbacks...
...Fever Pitch, by David Caute. As ineffectual Britons drop another position of empire, cynical black Africans claw at each other for the pieces in this searing first novel that explores, rather than exploits, the headlines...
...FEVER PITCH (255 pp.)-David Caute-Pantheon...
...Fever Pitch is more than the substance behind the headlines. In spite of a good deal of boyishness (Author Caute seems to think that repetition is a literary virtue), an atmosphere of urgent truth plays over the book. Hopelessness is as pervasive as the debilitating climate. And black victory is as depressing in its consequences as white defeat. Certainly the British army has seldom looked so drearily ineffective, and black Africans have seldom been decked out in such deliberate cynicism...