Word: henshaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Burgess, 69, has recaptured the same linguistic verve and inventiveness that marked his earlier fiction, especially The Doctor Is Sick (1960) and A Clockwork Orange (1962). He has also created a heroine to rival, in nearly every respect, the comically seedy poet Enderby, hero of four Burgess novels. Ellen Henshaw is an old woman living in the south of France when she decides to set down her memoirs, with the stenographic assistance of one Rolf Marcus, an itinerant and blocked American journalist who needs the lodgings that she can provide. Ellen confesses, up front, that she has been known...
...Ellen conceives of her story as a tribute to "my poor dear, dead dad," and that is pretty much what she provides. Billy Henshaw inherits sole responsibility for his young daughter after his wife and son die during the influenza epidemic that swept through Britain in World War I. "My dad always called himself not a pianist but a pianoplayer," Ellen recalls. "Pianoplayer gives you the idea of him and the instrument being like all one thing, jammed together." Billy makes his way by accompanying the silent films at a Manchester movie house during the mid-1920s. Unfortunately, he possesses...
...Henshaw, 43, is charged with 12 felony counts ranging from maintaining a public nuisance to soliciting women to commit oral...
...Henshaw's attorney, John F. Sheehan, said no arrest warrant would be issued for his client and that Henshaw would surrender for arraignment...
...women whose pictures were found in Henshaw's condominium, a converted 19th-century carriage house near the Ivy League school, have been identified as current or former Brown students...