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...CHILDREN AT THE GATE, by Edward Lewis Wallant. The author's last novel, completed before his death last year at 36, tells of a daft but saintly man and how another slowly takes life and grace from...
...CHILDREN AT THE GATE by Edward Lewis Wallant. 184 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
Though few recognized it at the time, it is increasingly apparent that the U.S. lost one of its best novelists when Edward Lewis Wallant died 15 months ago at the age of 36. His career was astonishing in several ways, the first of these being simply that each of his four books was so good that it seemed unlikely that the author could write another at the same level. A second surprise is that no cult has gathered since Wallant's death. Ordinarily, the work of a brilliant and relatively unknown writer would, at his death, quickly be walled...
Agony of Laughter. Wallant wrote of suffering; he believed with no sense of dismay that it was man's fate. His first novel, The Human Season, is nothing more than an extended portrayal of the enormous grief of a middle-aged Jewish plumber whose wife has died. The author does not founder in the plumber's sorrow; neither does he regard it with detachment. His view might be that of a loving son or brother who says only, because there is nothing more to say, "This is part of what...
...Children at the Gate is Wallant's last novel. The title, which was thoughtfully chosen, is from T. S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday...