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...dozen noteworthy first novels published this summer, four are especially distinguished. Robert Crichton's The Secret of Santa Vittoria, one of the funniest war novels since Mister Roberts, describes the ordeal of an Italian village that during World War II attempted to hide 1,320,000 bottles of vermouth from the German army. Beggars on Horseback, by James Mossman, is a grisly, giggly satire about a mythical Middle Eastern kingdom where the British muddle through until they fizzle out. Trust, by Cynthia Ozick, is a massive (568 pages) and almost continuously impressive attempt to reconstruct the near-religious experience...
...dozen noteworthy first novels published this summer, four are especially distinguished. Robert Crichton's The Secret of Santa Vittoria, one of the funniest war novels since Mister Roberts, describes the ordeal of an Italian village that during World War II attempted to hide 1,320,000 bottles of vermouth from the German army. Beggars on Horseback, by James Mossman, is a grisly, giggly satire about a mythical Middle Eastern kingdom where the British muddle through until they fizzle out. Trust, by Cynthia Ozick, is a massive (568 pages) and almost continuously impressive attempt to reconstruct the near-religious experience...
...Secret of Santo Vittoria (Simon & Schuster) by Robert Crichton, 41, a World War II combat veteran, is very likely the funniest war novel since Mister Roberts. The Troy of his hilarious Iliad is a wine-producing village in southern Italy, a town so poor in everything, including fertilizer, that its inhabitants stalk oxen with a broom and a pan. The Hector of the tale is the village mayor, a paisano whose native cunning has been reinforced by the study of Machiavelli. The Agamemnon of the story is a German captain assigned to rob the village of its only precious possession...
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. The knowing eye of Director Vittoria De Sica scans Italy's greatest natural wonder, Sophia Loren, whose Vesuvian warmth bubbles through this three-part comedy co-starring the ubiquitous Mastroianni...
...Avventura, also, Claudia said that she did not know what was troubling her, but soon she realized that she was falling in love with Giorgio. Vittoria, however, certainly does not love Piero, although she does find him attractive. She tries to avoid all physical and emotional contact with him, and the love-making they do engage in finally is brief and unsatisfactory. Vittoria is not as unable to communicate as she is unwilling, for she fears the abvious solution to her problem: solitude...