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Tsuga 's Children is a novel that was bound to be written in a time of lowered sights and the repackaging of conventional verities. Thomas Williams, who won the National Book Award in 1975 for The Hair of Harold Roux, now gives us a fantasy spun from the loose threads of The Lord of the Rings, The Whole Earth Catalogue, Carlos Castaneda and the Environmental Protection Agency. Set on a timeless, mythical Western frontier, the novel cultivates a modern delusion. As the author says, "It is a story that I hope might remind its readers that at our best...
This year's winners were typical of that diversity. In fiction, the split award went to a traditional academic novel, Thomas Williams' The Hair of Harold Roux, and Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers, a savage morality tale that moves as fast as a whodunit and finds a nihilistic link between the Viet Nam War and the drug culture. The arts and letters award was shared by Lewis Thomas' The Lives of a Cell, a meditation on the structure of all living matter, and Roger Shattuck's life of Marcel Proust. For the recently created category...
Married. Gaston Defferre, 63, mayor of Marseille and Socialist leader who ran for President against Charles de Gaulle in 1964-65; and Edmonde Charles-Roux, 51, novelist and former editor in chief of the French edition of Vogue (1954-66); he for the third time, she for the first; in Avignon, France...
...that level, The Dirtiest Show in Town is surprisingly amusing. The nudes are graceful, handsome and refreshingly unselfconscious. Acting skill is secondary in group enterprises of this sort, but Jeffrey Herman is kinkily personable and quite funny as a gay Jew, and Madeleine le Roux plays a tall blonde lesbian with the icy authority of a lady storm trooper. Playwright Tom Eyen is perhaps the best guide to the underlying seriousness that animates his play even at its silliest and most scandalous: "We're getting the new sexual freedom suddenly, and we don't know how to cope...