Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Author Bernard Malamud, 64, is a messenger who brings the bad news. His vision is firm and tragic, and a strain of Old Testament severity runs through his novels and short stories: all of his characters either know instinctively or must be taught that life is real, earnest and achingly impermanent. As a consequence, Malamud's career has earned him awards and formidable respect but produced little dancing in the streets. He is an author easy to admire and hard to love...
What aficionado has not been confined in a summer cottage on a rainy day with someone who does not know about thrillers and keeps announcing every 40 pages who killed Roger Ackroyd or who has :he key to the locked room? The connoisseur knows that the fun of a suspense novel lies not in competing with the author but in admiring his craft...
...cursed place. The motive for all this is not very deep. The story would not be ten able if the local sheriff were not a very new man in the territory and his helpers foreign. As the old man notes, the towns people are not mystified at all: "They know the country, the undercurrents."In The Maine Massacre, the plot is the undercurrents. The principal character is the snow. It isolates the town and stills all action. The escapes and chases that fill an ordinary story are stalled in Jameson. A marksman in snowshoes is the only prowling menace...
...police are very gun-ho; they carry .357 magnums and I don't know much about guns, but I know a .357 is hard to survive," he says. "I give the police the 'yes sir-no sir' treatment to try to avoid trouble...
...adds that "you can see racism all over the county; most blacks just know which restaurants and places to avoid. Cross-burning and name-callings are typical. There's no way that boy (Johnson) could ever get off, but even if he did, he would never survive in this community...