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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mother's House, by Julian Gloag. A little masterpiece of the macabre in which seven London youngsters bury their mother in the garden, clout Dad with a poker, and evolve the forms of a religion based on the dead...
...rarely agree on anything these days, found themselves united last week in anger at the U.S. With strong British backing, most of the airlines flying the North Atlantic route had just raised economy round trip fares 5%-and the U.S. had refused to go along. When Minister of Aviation Julian Amery rose in Commons and castigated the U.S. for "inciting American companies to break our law," he won cheers from both sides of the House. "This situation is unacceptable," said Amery, "and cannot be allowed to continue...
Other included: Kirkland, Bowman Cutter, Alfred Guzetti, John Henn, Frederic Kellogg, Leo Mullin; Leverett, Keith Julian, Ronald Cohen, Michael Reiss, Donald Stern, Earl Leiken; Lowell, David Brandling-Bennet, Charles Bolton, Eugene Kinasewich, Marshall Moriarity, Richard Seymour; Quincy, Duncan Kennedy, Robert Kudrle, Fernand Brunschwig, R. Gilbert Jost, Victor Niederhoffer; Winthrop, Max Byrd, Bruce Paisner, William Grana, Grief Raggio, Robert Benson...
...writer who can breathe fictional health into a story as sick as this one must be credited with a minor miracle. Genuine magicianship may be so conceded to Julian Gloag, a suitably baleful-looking young (32) New Yorker, ten years out of school (at Britain's Rugby and Cambridge), who has made a memorable fable about his seven motherless moppets. He has succeeded, partly by attention to details that worry the practical reader, such as how did they get the money? Little Jiminee, a talented penman, forged endorsements on mother's mysterious but regular checks, and Hubert cashed...
...MOTHER'S HOUSE (286 pp.)-Julian Gloag-Simon & Schuster...