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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FICTION: Cannibals and Missionaries, Mary McCarthy -Collected Stories, Paul Bowles -Endless Love, Scott Spencer -Letters, John Barth -McKay's Bees, Thomas McMahon -Sophie's Choice, William Styron -The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...Styron • The Ghost Writer. Philip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...Styron (2 last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...Sophie's Choice, Styron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

That's why the novel fails. The immediate temptation is to compare Styron to Conrad; Sophie is Polish, and there are even references, late in the novel, to Conrad's Lord Jim. Styron searches for good and evil, for the vestigia that demons leave, just as Conrad did; he may even be answering Saul Bellow's Nobel Laureate call for a return to Conrad, for a return to what Conrad called the "permanent, enduring, essential" in human existence. But Styron doesn't know "the horror." These are small shoes in the footprints of sasquatch...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: See No Evil | 9/29/1979 | See Source »

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