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...Levi reawakened to reality. From a peremptory Greek companion, he learned basic survival tactics: "He who has shoes can search for food." Then one day Levi asked directions from a Polish priest, got an answer in Latin, felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of restoration to humanity and health. His memoir is dignified and affecting, a gentle epic of recuperation...
...Ocean Sea, History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II). Man and boy, he sailed "down north and up along" the coast of Maine and Nova Scotia summer after summer, and made voyages of opportunity in all quarters of the globe. Now, in a brief delightful memoir, the old salt recalls with affection some of the finest hours he has passed between wind and water -a day in 1961 when everything went right, a day in 1956 when everything went wrong, a long warm summer's sail among the shining isles of Greece. Much of his time...
...this wittily ironic memoir, Lenard blithely confesses that all the rumors are true. Unlike most memoirists, he is crisply cryptic about his own improbable early life. But with delight and charm, he descants on life in his adopted home in Southern Brazil. If he seems to resemble Albert Schweitzer as an intellectual refugee buried in a jungle, the resemblance is superficial: Schweitzer is devout and ascetic, Lenard is an agnostic and a humanist; Schweitzer is a crusader, Lenard works...
...playwright named Jonah, a son, a marriage, all mentioned with verbal nudges and eyebrow lifting, none comprehensible to the reader or relevant to Killorglin. There are friends in Ireland whose portraits are washed in far too thinly for a book that at times appears to be a memoir in the act of becoming a novel. The last impression the book leaves is of a richly emotional letter from someone the reader does not know to someone else he has never...
Died. Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 83, friend and biographer of two U.S. literary pillars (Willa Gather: A Memoir; Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence), among whose reminiscences were Gather's abject chagrin at Henry James's polite refusal to read her novels and Frost's nagging suspicion that his wife was his intellectual superior; in Manhattan...