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...content, this first commercial publication of My Secret Life makes Fanny Hill look like Mary Poppins. It rivals Casanova's memoirs in sheer size (2,359 pages) and weight (61 lbs.); and in the number of women dealt with (1,250 by the author's own count, 2,500 by another scholar's system), it surpasses all contenders. It is not only the longest autobiography of any kind, it is also the longest sexual memoir ever written. It smacks of pure fantasy, but it is apparently authentic - at least, so says Gerhson Legman in his 43-page...
...BEST TIMES, by John Dos Passos. An informal memoir, which also manages to be a typically understated and modest autobiography by a novelist who is not so much a historian as a journalist...
...District of Columbia and Most Likely to Succeed (1954) have been reissued. World in a Glass, a shrewdly selected anthology from all the novels, with an essay by Kenneth S. Lynn, has just been published coincidentally with The Best Times, a compilation of new sketches described as "an informal memoir" -which is probably the closest thing to an autobiography that can be expected this modest...
...VOICE THROUGH A CLOUD, by Denton Welch. A crippling auto accident, which ended Welch's studies as a promising painter, launched a writing career that comes to flower in this terrible memoir of the in valid years that ended in death...
Levenson concedes that by today's lights his upbringing may have been all wrong. But that is an artificial concession to the power of modern psychology. Most readers, savoring this witty memoir of a family rich in everything but money, will find it as tasty as a bagel plastered with cream cheese. It is also one of the happiest books of the year...