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...message of All Fall Down, the universal need for love, is as obvious as it is worthy; the means of getting it across makes unfailingly good reading. Author Herlihy (Blue Denim, The Sleep of Baby Filbertson) plays with a kind of hurt tenderness over every desperate human confrontation. With originality, freshness and economy he can convey the seediness of a brothel, a strip joint, a hotel room-never once trying for the sensational or playing up the shoddy for its own sake. Having skillfully drawn the Williamses as offbeat types, he makes it effectively plain in the end that what...
...Sleep of Baby Filbertson, by James Leo Herlihy. Into this skillfully woven basket of short stories, the author tenderly places seven "twisted apples"-the maimed, the infantile, the impotent-that have fallen from the tree of life...
...Sleep of Baby Filbertson, by James Leo Herlihy. Seven short stories about the maimed, the infantile, the impotent, who fall like "twisted apples" from the tree of life...
...SLEEP OF BABY FILBERTSON (190 pp.) -James Leo Herlihy-Dutton...
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