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NORMAN'S LETTER by Gavin Lambert. 232 pages. Coward-McCann...
Biology says that the longer the nurturing period, the higher the species of animal. The quirks in that idea appeal to British-born Novelist Gavin Lambert. He first explored protracted puberty among starlets in Inside Daisy Clover, a barbed novel that Hollywood made into a mushy movie. Now Lambert satirizes the upper-class British male, alternately pampered and scourged in nursery and public school. His hero, Sir Norman Lightwood, is the invincible innocent, a descendant of Paul Pennyfeather who goes unarmed in a world of "pimps and pitiless roughnecks...
...LAMBERT...
...visionary also chained himself to his work table for nights on end, compulsively churning out that prodigious torrent of words that is his own monument and literature's as well. Old Goriot, Lost Illusions, Louis Lambert, Droll Stories, Eugénie Grandet-these and other components of Comédie, his grand design, enjoy a special favor on the shelf of classics that not many others there can claim: they can be read today just for pleasure, by nonscholars, without respect to their literary pedigree...
Donor Bobst, a onetime drug clerk who had only one year of college but rose to be board chairman of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., finds the fuss over his gift "a little embarrassing." A lifetime library lover, he gave the money, he says, because of "my great faith in self-acquired education by reading." N.Y.U.'s Hester lustily applauds such faith in reading-and in the future of the urban university...