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...Richard Schickel...
ANOTHER I, ANOTHER YOU by Richard Schickel...
...trendy these days that a full-grown citizen who has not known its astringent delights wonders more or less seriously whether he has denied himself one of life's meaningful experiences. Not splitting is like not going to Europe. A writer, in particular, finds divorce invaluable, as Richard Schickel proves in this literate and agreeably romantic first novel about a man and a woman who have shucked their first spouses...
...Schickel, a writer-producer-director of TV documentaries, and cinema reviewer for TIME, is 45 and a veteran of one marriage and one divorce. Yet he writes with the freshness and emotional intensity of a 20-year-old memorializing his first love affair. His book is considerably more resonant than the customary first-love novel, however, perhaps because authors and characters in their 40s have deepened and mellowed, and those in their 20s are too raw to be consistently interesting...
Early in the story, before Narrator Koerner has found his voice, there are a few sentences a bit too mannered and elliptical. "Some of them a sensible man would have paused with, perhaps found whatever it was he thought he was looking for," writes Schickel of Koerner's women friends. That second clause needs to be drained, refloated and fitted out with new prepositions. But the early lapses are not repeated, and the novel in sum is intelligent, sentimental writing for the middle-aged and cynical, who need it more than most...