Word: memoire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich released a fantasy, The Dark Tower, that Lewis never finished. Macmillan of New York has recycled selections from other works into The Joyful Christian, a new volume out this week. In yet another new book, A Severe Mercy (Harper & Row), a memoir by Sheldon Vanauken, professor of history and English at Virginia's Lynchburg College, Lewis appears as a ministering angel in tweed jacket. Like so many other unbelievers, Vanauken and his wife Jean dipped into Lewis upon urgings of Christian friends, began devouring all the Lewis books they could find, and wound up, to their...
...Author Dunne, whose credits include Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season, The Studio, Delano and film scripts written with his wife, Novelist Joan Didion, Lois Fazenda is the hapless fly that jiggles a grotesque web of relationships. As Spellacy discovers, the path of the victim's life crisscrossed his own world of Irish-American Los Angeles just after World War II. It is a lively place where an archbishop plays weekly croquet with Samuel Goldwyn, a hard-luck punk goes to the gas chamber for kidnaping a girl on V-J day, and a leading Catholic contractor short...
Julia's problems trace back to its source, a Lillian Hellman story that appeared in her 1973 memoir, Pentimento...
...night stands. Like so many of François Truffaut's melancholy comedies, this film deals with the impossibility of monogamous love: Bertrand sleeps with dozens of women because he knows there is no one woman who can offer him complete fulfillment. Eventually he writes a memoir about his exploits-a Story of Adele H. in reverse, one might say-and dies happy...
...else had written it, A Fine Old Conflict could have been a disaster: maudlin, perhaps, or strident. But Mitford brings a unique background to her memoir. The daughter of a pair of eccentric British peers and the sister of two of England's most prominent fascists, Mitford has some hilarious stories about what happened when members of her family met up with members of her party. For instance, the members of the San Francisco cell were just as awed by Jessica's sister as any other American would have been. Fortunately, Mitford finds the contrast between her upperclass background...