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...notable exception is the extraordinary 77-page title story, "The Temptation of Jack Orkney." Jack Orkney is a British journalist and author, a secular saint of the socialist old guard who could always be depended on to whip up a manifesto or organize a protest. At middle age, Orkney has survived ideological squalls with his honor intact. He and his wife enjoy a warm, understanding relationship. His daughters are grown and liberated; his son is a chip off the old radical bloc. But when Orkney is called north to the bedside of his dying father, he begins to have cold...
ANTOINE DE Saint Exupery wrote great adventure stories about airplanes, the kind of thing you liked in high school if you couldn't hack Fitzgerald. He also wrote a wonderful little story called The Little Prince, the kind of thing your mother read to you if you couldn't hack Winnie the Pooh. But The Little Prince, like so much children's literature, is directed towards the mother as much as the child...
...Saint Exupery tells the story of a little man who lives all alone on a distant asteroid, of the journey that he takes from his asteroid to the Sahara Desert, and of the adventures he has there and elsewhere on the earth. His book is laced with quaint illustrations (by Saint Exupery himself) of a coa constrictor swallowing an elephant, baobab trees devouring a planet, and ant hill sized volcanoes...
...encounters a whole series of lonely, tired men who act as foils for this philosophy; a king without subjects, a drunk who drinks to forget his shame of drinking, a businessman who has deluded himself into thinking that he owns the stars. Yet though it is a "message" book. Saint Exupery's prose is so delightfully disarming that even the most devoted of Ayn Rand's flock could swallow...
...competent. It suits the tone of the text; no really fancy stuff, minimal action, and little of the "Isn't it neat that I'm a talking animal" coloring which mars so many stagings of children's stories. Zucker also is the Narrator. He gets the best of Saint Exupery's prose, and with fine modulation and good phrasing, he renders it well. Virginia Feingold as the Little Prince is the only real disappointment in the cast; she chooses to play him as an inquisitive little child, and comes across as downright irritating. The Little Prince is small and perhaps...