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Actually, I tend to alternate between the violent and the peaceful. Sometimes when I'm in a mellow mood, I like to think that perhaps I'm communing with nature every time I answer her call. If you can't tell, a few measly bugs in the bathroom is not...
In telling the mother's story, McGinniss cannot be accused of glorifying a neurotic criminal. Nor, he is at pains to emphasize, can he be charged with exploitation. He did not seek out his subject. Rather, she came to him -- because, he gloats, she so admired Fatal Vision.
Still, Memoirs is not all misanthropy and -ogyny. Amis gives a generous portrait of his shy, witty fellow Oxonian, the poet Philip Larkin, who like the author had to endure that most mannered of academic dons, Lord David Cecil. One sprightly chapter contains a mercilessly comic imitation of a lisping...
The pair married in 1935, but the union was not perfect. Harry, Martin writes, had extended relationships with Jean Dalrymple, a Broadway producer and theatrical agent and (platonically, it seems) with Mary Bancroft, who, among other accomplishments, had been a wartime spy master for the OSS. Clare's lovers, according...
To Leo, Bob is every horrid neurotic thing the good doctor has sworn to stamp out. But to Leo's family, Bob is the one thing Leo is not. He is available. For stupid fun. For off-the-wall counseling. For generally shaking things up. Murray, with his curious blend...