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Behan wrote The Scarperer in 1953, at the height of his boozy powers. Published under a pseudonym as a serial in the Irish Times, it was rediscovered only after Behan offhandedly mentioned it to his London editor nearly ten years later. Light as a feather, compassionate, unsentimental, this high comedy about low life is the most artfully constructed thing the impulsive Behan ever wrote...
Whips & Sticks. Pedro Martinez, a fictitious name chosen to preserve anthropological anonymity, is a more fully developed character than any single Sanchez child, more intricately related to his country's disheveled past and closer to its soil. Pedro's setting is "Azteca" (another pseudonym), an ancient farming village in the stony highlands about 60 miles south of Mexico City. Like most Mexican peasant children, he had a haphazard upbringing. His father died when he was three months old, after which his mother, "being just a girl, she got herself a boy" and went off with him. Pedro...
...might one day turn canary and spill what he knew about Soviet intelligence. Abel, however, was a tough customer. A scholarly intellectual who spoke six languages fluently, dabbled in theoretical mathematics, and was an accomplished amateur painter and musician, he never admitted either his real name (Abel was a pseudonym) or even that he was a Red agent...
...decided that she only had six months to live. "You really appreciate life when you know you're going to die," she discloses. But before the last cough, she began making the rounds of actors' workshops, consulting the New York City telephone directories for a suitable pseudonym, and unquestionably finding a name in 8,000,-000-Angelina Scarangella...
Indeed, with such a wealth of reference Harvardiana, some brash readers have gone so far as to suggest that Mark Epernay, described on the cover-flap as "evidently a distinguished observer of politico-economic trends," is really the pseudonym of a Harvard professor. A few have even had the gall to mention--or, rather, whisper--the name of John Kenneth Galbraith. But that is patently ridiculous. Harvard professors are far too intellectual and have too many hour exams to mark, government officials to consult, and ambassadorial duties to attend to, to have the inclination or the time to write facetous...