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...secure kind of pleasure to begin a novel by Canadian Writer Robertson Davies. This is not because the reader knows what will happen-Davies does not write formula fiction-but because he is serenely sure of what will not happen. The author will not hunt snarks, nor plant a forest of symbols and then get lost in it. Nor will he fail to have some compelling reason to write rather than remain silent...
PICTURES OF FIDELMAN, by Bernard Malamud. Yet another schlemiel-saint in fiction-but this one is canonized by Malamud's compassionate talent...
Memory is a subtle liar and often a bad writer of fiction-but it can be a marvelous storyteller. Very early in this rush of remembrance of a Brooklyn boyhood 30 years ago, it is clear that Gerald Green has let memory do all the work. His hero, Albert Abrams, is a skinny, precocious, unheroic kid who tags fearfully after a gang of asphalt Iroquois called the Raiders. The book follows Albert and his heroes-a splendidly underprivileged crew of dirty-cut young men-through a wild summer day in the Brownsville streets. The action begins with the formal curbside...
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