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...OXFORD BOOK OF IRISH SHORT STORIES Edited by William Trevor...
...Oxford; 567 pages...
...takes the English novelist step by step, from his birth in 1904 to 1939. Readers of Greene's memoir A Sort of Life may experience a mild paramnesia as they again hear of the novelist's neurotic childhood, his crush on his psychoanalyst's wife, his dissolute years at Oxford, his conversion to Roman Catholicism, his beginnings as a journalist, and the physical and spiritual wanderings that led to the writing of his popular moral thrillers...
Clad in the Oxford cloth of Andover and Harvard, Tarazi speaks with the American accent he learned in Pennsylvania and Colorado schools. He is also a practiced debater, arguing forcefully on political subjects that most Americans approach cautiously for fear of giving offense...
Joanne B. Ciulla, a visiting scholar at Oxford University specializing in ethics and a former post-doctoral fellow at Harvard, says she often writes her own studies in order to compensate for the short supply of Harvard ethics cases...