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Greene was outraged by the decision. "In my entire career as a writer," he said, "it is only the second book that's ever been banned. The first was The Comedians, and that was Papa Doc who seized it" (François Duvalier, Haiti's tyrannical dictator who died in 1971). The verdict against J'Accuse is not subject to further appeal...
...family and the world without getting wet feet. In David Plante's two previous novels of the Francoeur family, these slippery steppingstones have protruded from still, deep waters. The Family, nominated for a National Book Award in 1979, introduced the French-Canadian clan at home in Providence. Papa was a machinist, and his wife, mother of seven sons, a closet hysteric. Son Daniel, then an adolescent, proved to be a precocious observer and subtle dramatist of domestic conflict. In The Country (1981), Daniel was, like Providence-born Plante, a writer living in London. In 159 pages, that novel conveyed...
...often the case, an overly protective and pushy father was behind the youngster's fanaticism. Papa Silverstein wanted a big hunk of a son, and that's wanted a big hunk of a son, and that's what he saw in the size-three cleats inhabited by skinny Doug...
Before the collision even took place. Papa Silverstein was out of his seat and barrelling down the bleachers. He wasn't going to sit by quietly while his son had his insides rearranged by a hurtling mass of overactive hormones...
Born in 1883 in the Romagna, a region south of Venice, Mussolini was a hereditary rebel; both his father and his grandfather had been imprisoned for their political beliefs. Papa Alessandro, a blacksmith with intellectual aspirations, was one of the earliest proclaimed socialists in Italy. Young Benito was a loner with what would now be called sociopathic tendencies, a street fighter who looked on violence as the natural way to get what he wanted. Yet he was unquestionably intelligent. He read extensively in German, French and English and even wrote a novella in the style of Edgar Allan...