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BOY GRAVELY, by Iris Dornfeld. A novel written by a musician about a slum boy who composes an electronic symphony and finally gets to hear it performed in the Hollywood Bowl. In telling about this unlikely hero, the author perceptively delineates the terrible disease and destiny that is genius.
BOY GRAVELY, by Iris Dornfeld. A novel written by a musician about a slum boy who composes an electronic symphony from the sounds he has heard all his life and finally gets to hear it performed in the Hollywood Bowl. In telling about this unlikely hero, the author delineates the...
BOY GRAVELY by Iris Dornfeld. 212 pages. Knopf. $4.95.
Surprisingly he is also accepted as such by the reader. This second novel by Iris Dornfeld (Jeeney Ray), who is the wife of Nation Editor Carey McWilliams and a musician in her own right, has many faults-among them a bifurcated plot structure and an occasionally cluttered style. But it...
English women: Queen Elizabeth II is out (although she is a distinct possibility as German-of-the-year), and so are Mrs. Harold Wilson and Princess Margaret (who won't be here until November). But there must be someone: Ivy Compton-Burnett? Lady Snow (Pamela Hansford Johnson)?? Iris Murdoch???