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FICTION: Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙ Picture Palace, Paul Theroux ∙ Stories, Doris Lessing The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke ∙ The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, edited by Kingsley Amis ∙ The World According to Garp, John Irving
Died. David E. Finley, 86, the soft-spoken South Carolina lawyer who was the planner and first director (1938-1956) of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; at his home in Georgetown. The idea, the money-and the first great collection for the gallery-came from Steel Magnate...
A mystique built up around the new Governor, legends sprouted. He lived a spartan existence and slept on a bare mattress. He drove to work in an old Plymouth. He hated politicians, he never slept. He meditated. He read Hermann Hesse, Doris Lessing, Yeats, Kafka, Henry Miller.
Doris Lessing. In a vision that veers between allegory and nightmare, a lone woman exists in a futuristic urban landscape of frightful anomie.
Patty had little else to report as the days dragged on. Like the other inmates, she was awakened at 6 a.m., dressed in drab prison garb and then had breakfast, which usually consisted of juice, eggs, sausage and coffee. Patty's 9-ft. by 7-ft. cell adjoined a...