Word: sidetrip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tender look at a beat-up Italian writer-revolutionary who is punchdrunk from too many rounds in a concentration camp. He rouses himself to play gracious host to a sympathetic pair of visiting Americans, and is bitterly hurt to find that they regard him just as an interesting sidetrip. These two stories suggest what Farrell, now 51, could do if he were not so busy regarding the good life as an illusion and good English as an affectation...
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