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...GOLDEN ECHO (272 pp.)-David Garnett-Harcourt, Brace...
Everyone can remember something in his childhood that seems as wacky and improbable as an incident in Alice in Wonderland, but Novelist David Garnett wins hands down with his memories of childhood and youth (the first volume of his autobiography). When he was five, Joseph Conrad took him into the garden and taught him to sail a boat ("the sail was a . . . sheet tied . . . to a clothes prop . . . The green grass heaved in waves . . . our speed was terrific"). Novelist Ford Madox Ford showed him how to "twitch one ear without moving the other"; he went for a drive "accompanied...
...ESSENTIAL T. E. LAWRENCE (328 pp.)-Edited by David Garnett-Dutton...
With the permission of Lawrence's publishers, Critic David Garnett has now done a bit of lifting. In his Lawrence potpourri, which consists of specimens from Lawrence's books, articles and letters, two excerpts from The Mint appear for the first time. Reminiscent of E. E. Cummings' World War I memoir, The Enormous Room, the excerpts are vignettes of army life: the loneliness of a first night in barracks, the sense of class war between officers and men, the comradeship of airmen...
Anthologist Garnett has arranged Lawrence's work in chronological order, to show the growth of the man. But there is something annoying in the title of this collection, and in the idea behind it. The essential T. E. Lawrence is to be found in the entirety of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, in his collection of letters, and perhaps, when it appears, in The Mint-not in a paste & scissors job which cuts him up into snippets...