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...MARIA E. ECHEANDIA...
...MARIA LIGHT (181 pp.)-Lester Goran -Houghton Mifflin...
...Churchill has got plenty of property investments in France, particularly along the coasts-it's a sure thing you're not going to see any armies landing there." In the end, the reader knows a lot about Maria Light. She works in a bakery shop, then in a pawnshop on Mechanic Avenue run by a 70-year-old sex fiend who tries to buy her body for $10 and failing, proposes marriage. She faithfully supports her invalid father-in-law. She longs for a man in bed with her but rejects one after another because they...
...that, Maria Light remains a faceless and not fully realized heroine in an otherwise excellent novel. She does not breathe the way the city breathes. Already a good novelist, Lester Goran will become an important one when he can draw his major figure as well as he sketches the small ones: "Archie came in the door with his habitual stoop although the door opening was well above his head." he writes of one quickly come-and-gone man in this book. "He had that shy manner that always indicated that what he was going to say was not worth hearing...
...Maria Livanos (Viola) and Peter Gesell (Toby Belch) and more robust comedy; Miss Livanos turns in her most flexible performance to date and all but overcomes the cloying cuteness of her voice with a newfound range of inflections and gestures...