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...biographer, historian, editor and critic, Peter Quennell has been one of England's radiant literary lights for more than half a century. He is also an assiduous collector and chronicler of eccentrics, a pointillist of foible, a raconteur without fear or peer. His latest memoir, drawn mostly from the '20s and '30s, is named Customs and Characters...
Author Hilary Masters begins his memoir with two endings. First, his maternal grandfather is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in June 1954, just a month shy of his 94th birthday. And then Hilary's father, Poet Edgar Lee Masters, is interred in Illinois four years earlier, at age 82. This narrative order runs counter to chronology, of course, but it remains true to the odd regressions of memory, that domain where the last events are most recent and hence preludes to all that went before. Masters' relatives grew old while he grew up; to recapture their pasts...
...quality of his mind, it is suggested by Kissinger in his latest memoir. Kissinger recalls a day when Brezhnev took him hunting and an enormous wild boar approached: "One could see easily why it had attained such a size. It was not greedy; it set about to investigate the bait. It examined the ground before every step. It looked carefully behind every tree. It advanced in a measured pace. It had clearly survived and thrived by taking no unnecessary chances. All its precautions attracted Brezhnev's attention, however, and he felled it with a single shot." Brezhnev probably understood...
...RAMSHACKLE HOTEL, beneath a tattered counterpane, a genius languishes. Rejected by Radcliffe at the age of 20 and by her family and friends at the age of 40. Mary McLane, and author who once published a scandalous memoir lies dying. Played by both a young and an old actress, she simultaneously cries out for affirmation of her past accomplishments and bleeds with the desire for future success...
...issued uneventfully into the governance of Calvin Coolidge," writes Russell Baker in this beguiling memoir...