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NONFICTION: Coming into the Country, John McPhee ∙ Dispatches, Michael Herr ∙ Chateaubriand. George D. Painter ∙ A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld ∙ And I Worked at the Writer's Trade, Malcom Cowley
NONFICTION: Coming into the Country, John McPhee∙Dispatches, Michael Herr∙Dulles, Leonard Mosley∙A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld
NONFICTION: Coming into the Country, John McPhee ∙ Dispatches, Michael Herr ∙ Dulles, Leonard Mosley ∙ A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld ∙ A Young Man in Search of Love, Isaac Bashevis Singer
...Josh and Foumi made the medical rounds, only to have hopes replaced by cold facts: Noah was incurably brain damaged; more experts were interested in scientific and career concerns than in the child's plight; state institutions were poorly run dumping grounds. Ultimately, the Greenfelds acknowledged the problem that was basically theirs alone. "Have a crazy kid," wrote Josh, "and get to understand the gut meaning of a society...
Seated at the kitchen table reading the sports page and drinking beer, Josh, 50, forms a timeless tableau of the New York apartment dweller. Noah watches with a distant curiosity from the living room couch. The next moment he has vanished, but one can hear him crooning excitedly. "He is having prepublication jitters," says Greenfeld...