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...some lack of burning inspiration may be inevitable, but this novel also shows an ignorance of the most basic tools of storytelling, not to mention an absence of the literary sensibility the author has demonstrated elsewhere. If Alvarez had turned his critical eye on his own work, this manuscript would never have seen the light...
Three months ago, Amin announced that Hills, 61, a resident of Uganda since 1964 and a lecturer at a teachers' training college until 1973, had been arrested for "spying" and for writing, in an unpublished manuscript, that Big Daddy ruled in the manner of a "village tyrant." A civil court threw out the case against Hills, who is suffering from terminal cancer. Nonetheless, a secret military tribunal quickly found him guilty of treason. Yet even before the kangaroo-court tribunal had reached its verdict, Amin was offering to trade Hills' life for some concessions from the British government...
Charles Higham's Kate (Norton; $7.95) displays a similar flaccidity. "Hepburn stood back nobly," begins the chronicle, "not asking to see the book in manuscript or proof . . . not even calling me to see how I was progressing." Hepburn's celebrated diffidence was never more wisely employed. Higham's hushed approach, his claim that "she is the greatest actress of our time . . . because her honesty demands she must suffer nakedly in front of our eyes" is incense, not biography...
Kearns, recommended for tenure by the Government Department last fall, had her appointment--scheduled to begin next month--called into question last month when an article in The New York Times said that the manuscript which she submitted for tenure would not be published, and that the manuscript may have been substantially edited by an outside writer...
There are more angles to this story. Kearns's new contract includes Richard N. Goodwin, her fiance and a former aide to Johnson. She says she's scrapping the original manuscript and writing a whole new book with Goodwin. Meanwhile, Kearns is also a nominee for tenure as a professor of Government at Harvard, by vote of that department's senior faculty last fall, based to a great extent on the strength of that disputed, 480-page manuscript. When kearns switched publishers in April, The New York Times ran a long story. The Wall Street Journal editorialized that Harvard should...