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...church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo. All this is in accordance with the composer's own devout wishes. Still, even Stravinsky himself might have liked the additional jaunty note of the epitaph he tossed off nine years ago, before leaving for an African conducting tour: "If a lion eats me, you will hear the news from him. He will say, The old man was tough, but a tasty meal...
...LION COUNTRY by Frederick Buechner. 247 pages. Atheneum...
...rich old Indian by raising up his own loins in thanksgiving. Eventually Bebb's more than comely daughter cures Parr of chastity. Nervously and without clear motives, like a man signing up for $400 worth of Great Books, Parr makes a commitment to life. Or to living in lion country. (One of Bebb's stunts is to walk unarmed among rutting lions at a local game preserve...
...LION COUNTRY, by Frederick Buechner. Antheum...
Perseverance is an admirable quality, and it often gets results. It finally has for Buechner. Lion Country , his latest novel, is the most entertaining piece of fiction published in this country since Updike's Bech: A Book . Buechner has given up his sententious themes, and toned down his murky style a bit, to produce a highly amusing novel about a bunch of remarkably strange people...