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...ORDWAYS, by William Humphrey. With rich, wry Southern recall, Novelist Humphrey (Home from the Hill) retraces a family's oddball odyssey from post-Civil War Tennessee to East Texas and down to the Mexican border, marking every mile with fond and funny bouquets...
...this ambitious, absorbing biography, the odyssey is redacted with fidelity and vigor. As Author Dillon develops the narrative, Lewis evolves into a brilliant, noble and magnificently effective neurotic, one of the most admirable and tragic figures of the American past...
Moravia's story describes the plight of a frustrated Italian screenwriter whose wife no longer loves him. Hired to write a film version of the Odyssey, he sees his wife being seduced by the producer and drifts into complex psychoanalogies about Ulysses, the loyal Penelope and her pernicious suitors...
...didn't get to make at the Democratic convention in West Springfield last June"), then carefully eased into a convertible for a rootin'-tootin' motorcade to the airport. A commercial jet took him to Miami, and the family Caroline on the last leg of his odyssey to his two children in Palm Beach. But all that wasn't quite enough for Teddy Jr., 3, who greeted his father with "Carry me piggyback, Daddy?" "I'm afraid you'll have to wait a while for that," said Daddy with what newsmen gamely reported...
Rickett. 252 pages. Odyssey...