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...Saigon's lively, neon-lighted Chinese city of Cholon was plunged into deep gloom. Grocers closed their doors, sat in front of their shops reading newspapers. Depressed by the slump in business, the queen of Cholon's call girls took an overdose of sleeping pills as the shortest route to the shades of her ancestors, was escorted to her grave in a red teak coffin by a weeping procession of old customers...
...water moccasin through the canebrakes among four narrators and unnumbered previous Faulkner books; it more or less turns around the fact that Eula, daughter of the old. failed squire Varner, has become pregnant-though nobody is sure by whom. Varner marries her off to Flem Snopes, who advances from shortest-order cook to bank vice president, then moves up several more rungs of Jefferson's social ladder when he permits "Major" De Spain to cuckold him with Eula. His motives are Snopesean and Faulknerian: through a kind of sexual osmosis, he hopes that the Snopes family tree will flourish...
...result, much of the book has the charm, but sometimes also the limited private meaning, of reminiscences over the third martini between balding alumni. But. apart from being on the whole immensely amusing, the book carries a paradoxical and completely unpreachy moral: the longest way around is the shortest way home. Those who at first appear to be against God, Country and Yale in the end do well by all three. At one time it appears as if the only letters McGough and Baxter are likely to win in life are four-letter ones, but Baxter (like Author Ham) becomes...
With this precision, Sailer combines not only strength and prime condition, but an astonishing ability to pick the fastest (not always the shortest) route to the finish line. Sailer's word for his technique is Tuschen, a Kitzbühel slang term that may derive from the word for brush strokes in an ink drawing, and somehow seems to fit the smooth, effortless swing down the slopes to an endless list of championships...
...miles an hour toward Chequers, carrying into retirement and the long shadows of history an exhausted man on whose shoulders rested a burden of disaster few men have had to bear. Thus ended the 642 days of the prime ministry of Sir Anthony Eden-one of the shortest and most melancholy in Britain's proud history...