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...Reading your review of my novel Pedlock & Sons [Oct. 21], I was reminded of the time in 1945 when William Faulkner and I were standing outside Warner Bros, studio waiting for our car, both a little glum since we had been working on the screenplay of Stallion Road. Bill said: "Who's going to star in this?" I said, "A horse." "I mean human." "Ronald Reagan." Bill thought a while and puffed on his Dunhill. "I don't know. Back home we'd run him for public office." "Why?"' Bill thought some more, then said...
...PEDLOCK & SONS by Stephen Long-streef. 370 pages. Delacorte Press...
When crusty, 80-year-old Judith Pedlock visited London, she wrote a postcard to her daughter Gertrude reporting that the weather was rainy, that the stiffness had left her right knee, and that she was bringing back to the U.S. a Mr. Jacob Ellenbogan, whom she intended to marry. The news infuriated the wealthy Pedlock family down to the third and fourth generations. Mama must be off her rocker! It was all rather nasty, unhealthy, and yet somehow not un-Jewish-not that any of them really gave much of a damn about being Jewish. Then anger turned to consternation...
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