Word: talese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crime on Her Mind edited by Michele B. Slung. 380 pages. Pantheon. $10. To support her blind husband, the heroine throws propriety to the winds and enters a "profession which was not only a harassing and exhausting one for a woman, but by no means free from grave personal risks...
It is before the meeting of this preposterous pair that Pride of the Bimbos excels. Sayles has a deadly accurate ear for Southern cracker dialect ("Chick at awl?" asks a South Carolina gas-station attendant); the jabbering at a sand-lot baseball game ("Chuckerinthereissgahcantit"); and the good-ole-boy humor...
Ships of fools and modern hostelries continue to do the job that mead halls and pilgrimages did for earlier eras of writers. They provide a place where assorted folk can tell their tales, show their colors and generally present themselves for inspection. In The Little Hotel, Australian Novelist Christina Stead...
David escapes from his dank cell and gets out into the countryside. Loaded down with tins of canned goods and an automatic pistol, he starts to make his way to a small mountain cabin which, it turns out, has already been destroyed by a natural disaster. This piece of information...
But Clarke could not sustain this early poetry for very long. His next books were uneven, tending to lapse into long ethereal movements that seemed only a parody of Yeats and his forerunners in the symbolist tradition. These years of his life were also the most frustrating for Clarke, for...