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...Novemberfest is a sour tale of divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

...hero of his umbrous novel Novemberfest (Knopf; 386 pages; $24) is Glen Cady, a 50-year-old professor of German whose young wife Paige goes septic after he is rejected for tenure at his New Hampshire university. Glen is a decent fellow. He was an assembly-line worker in Detroit as a young man, before he quit and revived an interest in the German language begun when he was a soldier in Europe. Paige is petulant and self-absorbed. She disapproves of his besotted love for their four-year-old daughter ("so working class") and grumps when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Divorce Trial | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

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