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Schine continues in a tradition exemplified by Joyce Carol Oates' Black Water and Auberon Waugh's waspish commentary for the Spectator. All attribute numerous undesirable traits to the young people who populate their work. These unfortunates are uniformly slothful, vain, banal, (place your vice here) revealing that while these authors may have read about and taught young people, they may not actually know any young people...
...delirious whirl of the Manhattan club scene depicted in Social Disease (1986), le plus chic twosome is Guy and Venice Huber, dancing their youth away -- and, because they are Rudnick people, constantly refreshing it. With its Evelyn Waugh drawl, Social Disease is Rudnick's revenge on the less- than-zilch nightlife novels of the mid-'80s. So I'll Take It (1989) must be his anti-Portnoy. A Jewish boy who loves and enjoys his mother -- call the cops! Paul's mom Selma and her sisters Lillian and Hilda are the models for Hedy Reckler and her bargain-hunter siblings...
...English novelist Evelyn Waugh once wrote that the only human relationships he could abide were intimacy, formality and servility. "What is horrible . . . in America is familiarity." Americans will be seeing a lot more familiarity, horrible or not, because that is the religion of the Clinton Administration...
BOOKS The tragedy beneath Evelyn Waugh's comic mask...
...Waugh could also be extraordinarily generous, both in praise for writers he admired -- most notably, Graham Greene -- and in discreet gifts to agencies of the Roman Catholic Church, which he had entered in 1930. In the end, though, he felt abandoned even by Catholicism. Pained by the populist liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council, Waugh discreetly asked a clerical friend, the Jesuit writer Martin D'Arcy, whether he might be excused from attending Sunday Mass. The answer was a firm but sympathetic...