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FICTION 1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)* 2. Hawaii, Michener (2) 3. The Leopard, Di Lampedusa (3) 4. Trustee from the Toolroom, Shute (6) 5. The Constant Image, Davenport (4) 6. Ourselves to Know, O'Hara (7) 7. The Lincoln Lords, Hawley (5) 8. A Distant Trumpet, Horgan (8) 9. The View from the Fortieth Floor, White (9) 10. The Affair, Snow
...Distant Trumpet, Horgan...
Cannonball got his name not from his propulsive style but from his gigantic appetite: a friend who saw him wolfing down steak nicknamed him "Cannibal," which in slurring repetition gradually came out "Cannonball." Born in Tallahassee, Fla. 31 years ago, Cannonball played trumpet in high school, switched to sax in college, spent several years as music director at Fort Lauderdale's Negro high school before forming his own group. He was "hung up on technique," Cannonball recalls, and his style was far more frenetic. Then he spent a couple of years with Miles Davis, from whom he learned "control...
View is clogged to the tear ducts with loyal lifelong employees waiting for the last Trumpet to sound. On Author White s showing, it is hard to see why they were ever hired. The managing editor is a choleric refugee from The Front Page, whose English is baser than basic ("Crapola! Crapola! Crapola!"). As a roman a clef, or key-to-reality-novel, the book unlocks some fairly intriguing trade gossip. But as literature. View from the Fortieth Floor lacks a consistent viewpoint, simply upends a wastebasket of facts and scans the litter like tea leaves of doom...
...Distant Trumpet, by Paul Horgan...