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Those who wondered not only whether but how Roth would resolve his dilemma now have at least an introductory answer. The first installment of Mercy of a Rude Stream displays documentary rather than novelistic ambitions. It takes its young hero, Ira Stigman, from his eighth year, in 1914, after he and his parents have moved from the Lower East Side to an apartment in Harlem, up to age 14. It also offers interpolated passages in which Ira as an aging man conducts imagined conversations with the computer on which he is writing his life story. Late in this novel...
...first seasons as Cleveland's General Manager, Gabe Paul will bear the onus of guilt for the most damaging trade of 1962: Vice Power and Dick Stigman to Minnesota for problem-child Pedro Ramos. While Power is hitting and fielding as well as ever, Ramos has won four, lost eight and compiled an E.R.A. of 4.58. The Indians have stopped hitting (team B.A.: .248) and have no power hitters to speak of. They could be headed for the second division...
...Brooklyn, one Gertrude Stigman, 9, promoted to the 4B grade in school, was rewarded by her mother with a rubber ball. Gertrude bounced the ball joyously high in air, landed it in a flower box, climbed up, clutched the side of the box which, unsettled by her tug, toppled with its 200 lb. of earth upon her skull, crushed her to death...
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