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HARLOT'S GHOST by Norman Mailer (Random House; $30). This huge (1,300-plus pages) novel starts off briskly with some Mailerian melodrama and metaphysics and then bogs down in a recapitulation of one man's life in the CIA from the middle 1950s to the early '60s. It ends with the three most ominous words in recent American literature: "TO BE CONTINUED...
...didn't have a mission in writing Gideon. I wrote Gideon because I was covering the Supreme court for the New York Times and the president of Random House, Bob Bernstein, pressed me, and pressed me, and pressed me, to write a book about the Supreme Court. And as I said earlier, I don't think books on a generalized topic are worthwhile; at least, I don't want to write them...
Fortunately, Rhett does not undergo any such astounding transformations. He remains the same old cynic with a heart of gold. But Ripley has him sailing back and forth to Ireland so frequently that his random appearances become aggravating...
ALTHOUGH SOME contend that the perpetrators did not know the implications of their actions, I disagree. The degree of effort, planning and malice that went into the vandalism make its explanation as a drunken prank or an act of random destruction seem empty and contrived...
...turning point came when Croatian militia units laid siege to Yugoslav army garrisons in the republic and cut off power, water and food supplies. Federal soldiers inside responded with artillery, shelling civilian neighborhoods around their bases at random. Yugoslav MiG-21 fighter-bombers streaked over Croatia, and gunboats threw up a blockade of the republic's long coastline, pressing in with bombardments of major Adriatic ports, from the medieval stoneworks of old Dubrovnik north to Split, Sibenik and Rijeka...