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...flight of Nicholas Leeson might have provided a juicy plot for Maugham or Le Carra. The young high flier's dizzying speculations on Singapore's International Monetary Exchange roiled international currency markets as well as the Tokyo stock market, and mortally wounded Barings bank, one of Britain's most venerable financial institutions, which was unable to cover losses of more than $1 billion. As the extent of the damage became apparent, Leeson, 28, and his wife Lisa Sims, 23, fled their apartment in Singapore and spent a week on the lam. Detained last Wednesday as he arrived in Frankfurt, Germany...
...were ignorance and prejudice, his own and other people's: he met transcriptionists who would run away so as not to have to type up his examinations of gay patients, and dentists who would refuse to see unmarried men. In the tradition of the best doctor-writers, from Somerset Maugham to Ethan Canin, Verghese took it all down with a fine mix of compassion and precision, understanding not only why men suffer but how they feel...
...ILLUSION THAT YOUTH IS happy," said W. Somerset Maugham. "An illusion of those who have lost it." That illusion has been fading especially fast in one of the most prosperous and conservative corners of the country, home to the fantasy capital of America, Disneyland, and to a host of quieter fantasies as well. For residents of Orange County, California, the most perishable myth would seem to be that honor students, computer geniuses and star athletes would make headlines only for their remarkable achievements, never for their ruthless crimes...
...number of international prizes, including the Somerset Maugham Award for Metroland (published in 1980) as well as the French Prix Medicis. His name is invoked in hushed reverential tones whenever there is speculation about candidates for the Booker Prize (Britain's prestigious literary award). He acknowledges that he is not writing for the average library borrower (or one suspects the little old lady from Dubuque), yet his work is not inaccessible...
...CIRCLE. Rex Harrison, 81, gives an elegantly understated turn in Somerset Maugham's beguiling Broadway comedy of marital scandal and autumnal passion. Stewart Granger and Glynis Johns co-star...