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...name for London Surgeon A. W. Lipmann Kessel. He was helped out on the book by London Journalist John St. John...
...LION (244 pp.) - Joseph Kessel- Knopf...
What Meets the Eye? A Book of the Month Club selection for July, The Lion is the work of a busy Frenchman named Joseph Kessel. Since the age of 20, he has managed to write 30 books, most of them based on his sightseeing. The Lion is the product of two months spent in Kenya in 1954, where he visited just such a game reserve, which was run by just such a warden, who had just such a daughter, who had just such...
...translation by Peter Green, Kessel's prose comes out as National Geographic exclamatory. Kessel has an eye and nose for Africa, from the way Masai warriors dress their hair (with red clay) to the construction of a native hut (from cow dung). But apparently he was trying to crossbreed Lolita with Rima, the bird-girl, and to enhance the result with the mystical animal overtones of Romain Gary's The Roots of Heaven. He professes to see Patricia as a study in "the passage from innocence to non-innocence." But the reader who, like the monkey, pulls...
Britain's postwar coffee jag has created a new orthopedic disorder. London Surgeon A. W. Lipmann Kessel calls it "espresso wrist," explains that he has found it in operators of Italian coffee machines, who have to make several strong turning movements of the wrist for each demitasse of black brew. They get inflammation and tightening of the tendon sheaths. The cure is hydrocortizone. To avoid relapses, the coffeemaker must learn to hold his wrist straight and stiff like a barmaid...