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...Providence is a tangled tale, ensnarling a number of characters, including a cop and some robbers, who manage to complicate one another's lives in ways impossible to predict. Wolff does not always seem certain whether he is offering a straight thriller or an anatomy of the creeping dry rot of urban corruption. But the atmosphere is entertainingly breezy and sleazy, with a wisecracking, side-of-the-mouth narrator and some of the tightest, meanest dialogue this side of Elmore Leonard. A hired hitman recalls one of his jobs: "I got orders about the Moron. I wasn't even...
...soon discovered just how boring it was to write paper after paper about the use of the word "the" in "Song of Myself" and such rot and have often cursed the fateful decision which led me into courses where I had to read Pilgrim'f Progreff or anything by Ezra Pound...
...Thyrdes (St. Martin's Press; 292 pages; $15.95) is about British moral rot of another sort, the ambition and reaction that caused a relative handful of mostly privileged young people to join fascist movements and endorse Hitler and the Nazis. Because such infiltration no longer threatens Britain's independence, the novel lacks The Endless Game's aura of larger significance. But it offers two ingeniously interwoven plots--twin attempts to discredit a father and son, 35 years apart. To understand what is happening to him, the son must solve a puzzle that baffled his father, who died in combat before...
...someone else's order, in this case the Gorilla Management Co.'s. Glynn concludes with an inevitable apocalypse, and none too soon. By the time the Nordic Ice Queen and the Madonna of Heat wrestle for the soul of the building, the author's inspired riffs on urban rot have been overworked as allegory. But not before a strong and exuberant talent has shown his stuff...
...this salient fact of inner rot based on pure egotism and greed which prompted the critical studies group to begin their assault on what the Law School had become. The intellectual issues are now completely obscured in personality and rancor. The root cause was never an ideological one but rather the monetization of the faculty in its drive for money, fame, and notoriety. Let us put things in their proper perspective. Benito Rakower, Ed.D...