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This was giddy stuff for bookish human ists reared in the threatening shadow of Sinclair Lewis' small-minded America...
...when Gordimer addresses, directly or by analogy, the problems of South Africa. At the Rendezvous of Victory shows the aftermath of a successful black revolution in an unnamed land. Broad social justice has unquestionably triumphed, but the blessings are bestowed unevenly. The new regime finds itself increasingly embarrassed by Sinclair ("General Giant") Zwedu, the military hero of the war for freedom. The blunt soldier does not mix easily in the brave new world of international alliances and monetary congresses. His former colleagues shunt Zwedu toward oblivion, using the lure of well-heeled debauchery. In A City of the Dead...
...happy tale of Helen Hooven Sant myer is the stuff of literary myth. Her first two novels were ignored in the 1920s. But the lady never lost heart. She planned a stirring rebuttal to Sinclair Lewis' scabrous attacks on Middle America...
Once housed in the Prime Minister's residence, Trudeau continued to cavort in public. He stunned staid pols by sliding down banisters and squiring young women to chic discothèques. After a secret courtship came his 1971 marriage-since failed, amid excessive publicity-to Margaret Sinclair, then...
...began writing her warm, human novel about life in a small Ohio town as a response to Sinclair Lewis' acerbic Main Street. That was in the late 1920s. But for Helen Hooven Santmyer, 88, the 1982 publication by Ohio State University Press of her 1,344-page opus, . . . And the Ladies of the Club, was only the first chapter in a success story. Last week G.P. Putnam's Sons announced plans to reprint 50,000 hardback copies of her novel by August, and the Book-of-the-Month Club has chosen it as a main selection. Meanwhile Santmyer...