Word: manness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every one of his novels, The Origin of the Brunists and The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., the one and only Robert Coover performed brilliant literary acrobatics in the center ring. Now, with sleights of hand, desperate feints, chills and thrills, he impersonates the fat man and the thin lady, the magician pulling himself from a hat, the juggler, ringmaster, hall of mirrors...
Read this series of short stories and cringe in terror as a rusty poker turns into a man, into a prince, into a male member, into a gnomic lusting man-beast, revealing the subconscious fantasies of two invented sisters...
Like Diogenes, Stephen Becker has spent most of his career as a novelist searching for an honest man-or at least a protagonist who can face a tough moral decision with honesty. In A Covenant with Death, a youthful judge must decide the fate of a man who kills his executioner after being convicted of a murder that he did not commit. Juice concerns a wealthy businessman fighting the machinery mobilized to exonerate him of the drunken-driving death of a pedestrian. Now, in his sixth novel, Becker, 42, turns back to the Civil War. In an excellent period morality...
...process, Catto loses his physical virginity to a whore, his philosophical virginity to his surgeon. He becomes an outraged man who takes it upon himself to lead the firing squad in order to save another officer from having to live with the crime...
...told, let us have the whole. Let the young not be misled." Like Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Becker's book explores the whole of war with realism and irony. Becker's hero, astounded at man's inhumanity, rages superbly against the dying of the light...