Word: talese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Any grown-up boy who has ever talked with the other fellas in the locker room has heard tales about B-girls-those satin cheats whose barstool love costs a fortune in fake champagne and broken promises. But last week the Senate's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee began a sober...
TALES OF WAR (140 pp.) - Mihail Sadoveanu - Twayne ($2.95).
In The Reivers* William Faulkner plays a mellowed Prospero and proves an engaging fellow. Like an old man gossiping on the back stoop, he delights in sentimental recollection, revels in his role as a teller of tall tales, at which only Mark Twain is his equal. Above all, Faulkner carries...
Author Leslie Fiedler, previously famed as the critic who detected homosexual themes in Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick, has now carried his war against fiction behind the enemy's lines. Effectively disguised as a short-story writer, Fiedler turns out, in Pull Down Vanity, a collection of tales of...
Singer's stories are almost always set in the shtetlech, the self-contained little communities in which most Eastern European Jews lived until the Second World War. They draw deeply from Hasidic and cabalistic lore and they are full of remnants of the folk tales which are the primary sources...