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...leave their marriages and decide, like the owl and the pussycat, to set off to sea in the 36-ft. double-ended motor-sailor Lord Jim. Throughout the chronicle blow dark gusts of both families' anger and disapproval--bad emotional weather that is the underlying motif of Chaplin's memoir, even when tropical sun shines on the romantic fugitives...
...since the Brontes has one family been so well represented on library shelves. After FRANK MCCOURT's, left, memoir Angela's Ashes became a Pulitzer-prizewinning international best seller, younger brother MALACHY, right, got in on the action and wrote his own book, A Monk Swimming, also a best seller. Now Alphie, a third brother who stayed with his mother in Ireland when his elder brothers left for America, has an agent and is shopping his version of events around town, eager to report what few details of the family's hardscrabble upbringing remain undocumented. It may be a crowded...
...pious and lustful (his determined eye is cast at his brother-in-law's pretty French fiance), a good father to his numerous brood, yet sometimes abrupt and heedless of them. He's a stormy character, all right, but an unfocused one, and this well-cast adaptation of a memoir by a British TV executive is disjointed, only queasily humorous and too casual about its dark undercurrents...
Thank you for this memoir of the 20th century. As I approach my seventh decade, I can recollect much of it, but I needed your review of influential people to refresh my memories. I shall keep this copy for my grandchildren. JUDY EISENMAN Quincy, Calif...
...with his remarkable powers of persuasion, he got "concurrence" from the board on The Catcher in the Rye--"that rare miracle of fiction," Kip called it, "a human being created out of ink, paper and the imagination." Kip was also a master of self-deprecation. When a memoir written by octogenarian William Shirer came in, Kip, a fellow octogenarian, fussed: "One should never reach the age of 80 because by then you realize your life is not worth a good goddam." After hearing all his projects in recent years, I finally got up the nerve to say, "You ought...