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...SECOND TIME IN HIS LAST two novels, literary magician Mark Helprin, 47, offers the reminiscences of an eccentric, brilliantly cross-grained geezer. In his 1991 novel, A Soldier of the Great War, he portrayed an indomitable hero who was a soldier and lover when young and, despite adversities, a philosopher and contemplator of art when old. It was perhaps the work of a young man assuring himself that life can be a reasonable, dignified progression toward...
...billionaire, a bank robber, a wholehearted lover of women, a convicted killer while still a teenager and, as a result of that, an inmate in a Swiss sanatorium during his high school years. But what he has been most consistently, through all the splendidly entertaining capers and calamities that Helprin invents for him, is what people call, in short...
...Reading Helprin's marvelously imaginative tales has always required wafting along with a flood of eloquence and accepting that floods are by nature excessive. There are few authors of whom it is less profitable to ask what in the world he may be getting at. Among novelists who fall into the magician category, Joyce and Nabokov, far more cerebral writers, could produce verbal astonishments as readily. Not many others come to mind. If there is a trouble with Helprin's writing, it is that readers may have come by now to expect little more than to be dazzled every...
...hero of Mark Helprin's new novel (Harcourt Brace; 514 pages; $24) has been, variously, a U. S. fighter pilot, a billionaire, a bank robber, a convicted killer and an inmate in a Swiss sanatorium. But what he is most is a bit of a nut, which he demonstrates principally through his lifelong war against the evils of coffee.TIME critic John Skowsays "If there is a trouble with Helprin's writing, it is that readers may have come by now to expect little more than to be dazzled every few pages....They certainly will be in Antproof, a wonderfully strange...
Minister Farrakhan may be rightly upset that antislavery activism was not predominant among the 150,000 Jews then in America, or that there is no record of any Southern rabbi who publicly criticized slavery -- but there were militant Jewish abolitionists (including Northern rabbis) such as Isidor Busch, Michael Helprin, Rabbi David Einhorn and August Bondi (who fought with John Brown). The expulsion of Jews from Tennessee by Ulysses S. Grant's Order No. 11 in 1862 and new waves of poor East European Jews would yield a more antiracist activism among American Jewry. But even though Minister Farrakhan's anti...