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...many years ther was a grim silence, as Adam West and Burt Ward went on to open shopping malls and Batman Comic fans grimly hid their books behind issues of Spiderman. There was no hope in Gotham...
Garrett, who has promised to reverse the dismal football tradition in Gotham, brought his troops out on a wave of enthusiasm in the first half...
...Batman and Robin of television fame may have had a grand old time in the city of Gotham, but there's no way they enjoyed themselves more than the Harvard men's basketball team's most visible freshmen...
Nothing could be simpler than Spark's subject, Harvey and Effie Gotham's marriage. Harvey is a rich man who doesn't have to work and who spends his abundant leisure time studying the Book of Job, on which he is preparing an essay. The problem of why suffering exists is, for him, the only problem. Effie is a generous-spirited but angry woman, an antinomian who feels that her anger at the excesses and errors of capitalism means that she does not have to abide by the rules--anyone's rules...
Muriel Spark's 17th novel is informed with that perception. Her central character is a pained, Job-like figure regarded in a comic light, as if, between losses, he is playing God's fool. It is a difficult role. Harvey Gotham is a wealthy scholar-dilettante who retires to rural France in his mid-30s. There he occupies himself with a monograph on the riddle of universal suffering: If the Lord is beneficent, why does his earth contain so much misery? On the bestseller list that conundrum is called When Bad Things Happen to Good People. Here...