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...always seemed, indeed, that her work, so dependent for its haunting power on the tonalities of her prose, at once intensely specific and mysteriously reticent, was too fine for the narrative demands of the screen. Out of Africa is a memoir and a collection of tales. But it is also an anthropologist's notebook, a naturalist's diary and a mystic's ruminations. And, yes, a duplicitous fiction in which time is compressed and rearranged, incidents conflated. The narrator granted herself a serene distance and freedom from quotidian concerns. How do you get all that into a movie and fulfill...
...Yael Dayan's memoir is stained with blood, Camelia Sadat's is soaked in tears. But the daughters are not as dissimilar as they seem. Camelia, 36, also plays out an Oedipal drama: when she is photographed with Egypt's President, "gossip followed that Father was involved with an attractive young woman whom he intended to marry. I thought it a huge joke." The joke was not always so funny. In this sad account, Sadat marries off his daughter when she is twelve, to a man 17 years her senior. When she later demands a divorce, her father grows glacially...
...office. She is equally entranced by her three-story Manhattan town house, the 27-room redoubt in Palm Beach, Fla., the Riviera hideaway with gardens "breathtakingly similar" to those of Monet's Giverny, the London flat filled with English antiques she had shipped from America. The charm of her memoir--part cosmetic- mogul tough talk, part Gracie Allen gab--is that Lauder so heartily enjoys her success and so clearly understands how it all came about...
...Isser Harel, the head of MOSSAD at the time, recalls in his memoir, The House on Garibaldi Street, his men were convinced on at least three other occasions that they had cornered Mengele: in 1961 on a farm near the sleepy Paraguayan capital of Asuncion, in 1962 on a farm near Sao Paulo, and a few months later along the Paraguayan-Brazilian border. Each time they came away emptyhanded...
Hungarian-born Stephen Vizinczey, 52, already has one worldwide best seller to his credit. In Praise of Older Women (1965), a fictionalized erotic memoir of an apparently insatiable young man, was rejected by so many publishers that Vizinczey quit his broadcasting job in Toronto and paid to have the book printed. It went on to sell some 3 million copies in eight languages. His second novel, which arrives in the U.S. trailing clouds of praise from England, Germany, Canada and Australia, may do just as well. True, the sex this time around is considerably muted. But moods have changed over...