Word: fitzgeraldian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Augustine's brother-in-law, the M.P., is still dithering over Liberal Party and parliamentary infighting. Augustine himself roves through Prohibition America, falling in with a neither beautiful nor damned crowd of would-be Fitzgeraldian teenagers. He even trots off on an Arabian Nights adventure in Morocco. Effective and colorful as some of this is, what does it have to do with Hughes' larger theme? The interrelation between private and public realms seems to have broken down. The narrative tends to lurch from near-history to near-fiction ("But Hitler, Strasser-how could these distant rivalries ever matter...
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