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THE DONKEY RUSTLERS by Gerald Durrell (Viking, $4.50). A gifted writer turns his attention to a book exclusively for children. It is a marvelous spoof of village conservatism confronting the "Communist menace."
THE CAT'S PAJAMAS and WITCH'S MILK, by Peter De Vries. In these two grotesquely humorous novellas, a gifted, discontented man works hard at being a failure, and a gentle, down-at-heart woman struggles with domestic disaster.
THE CAT'S PAJAMAS & WITCH'S MILK, by Peter De Vries. In these two grotesquely humorous novellas, a gifted, discontented man works hard at being a failure, and a gentle, down-at-heart woman struggles with domestic disaster.
Along the journey to nowhere, Sellers displays a few glimmers of the comic genius that once made him seem like a chip off the old Chaplin, notably in a hilarious Spanish-Yiddish-English brouhaha involving his mother and eleven Mexican whiplash-injury clients. But most of the time, the movie...
Flights of Rhetoric. A private account about any or all of these gifted Malrauxs would have been fascinating. But, as curious readers of Anti-Memoirs soon find, the author, now 67, has loftily decided to leave nearly all of his personal chronology out of his autobiography. ("Almost all the writers...