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Smith, who is Chair of Harcourt General, Inc., was appointed to the Corporation...
Childhood sexual abuse is a beast in many of these books. In Richard Hoffman's spare, poignant Half the House (Harcourt Brace; 175 pages; $20), it sneaks in almost laconically after the author has given us a searing picture of his blue-collar family in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the 1950s, with a violent but caring father and two brothers who are terminally ill. Hazy reverence for the Catholic saints is counterpointed with hazy submission to the sadistic coach who lures the author, then age 10, to his house with pornography and sodomizes him: "Induced, premature, with a hunger urgent...
Other Corporation members are Rosovsky, University President Neil L. Rudenstine, Kirby Corporation CEO Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, Harcourt General, Inc. CEO Richard A. Smith '46 and Washington attorney Judith R. Hope...
There is some of this romantic, celebratory quality in Memoir from Antproof Case (Harcourt Brace; 514 pages; $24), but reasonableness does not rule. As we meet the novel's main character, he is 80 or so, hiding out in Brazil from real or imagined assassins, writing down his adventures and stashing them in an ant-proof case for his beloved 10-year-old stepson to read when he is older...
Diane D'Andrade Editor of Smoky Night Harcourt Brace San Diego...