Word: handling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Collected Poems 1947-1980, Allen Ginsberg -- The Fifth Son, Elie Wiesel -- Money: A Suicide Note, Martin Amis -- The Sioux, Irene Handl -- The Tenth Man, Graham Greene...
...photograph on the dust jacket will look familiar to devotees of British comic films, and with good reason. Irene Handl, now 82, appeared with Peter Sellers in I'm All Right, Jack (1960) and with Terry-Thomas in Make Mine Mink (1960); she also played the deranged hero's mother in Morgan! (1966), in which she made a dottily poignant pilgrimage to the London grave of Karl Marx. In addition to these and other movie roles, plus extensive work in the theater and television, Handl found the time to write a novel. The Sioux was first published...
...Handl establishes the ground rules for this domestic mayhem almost entirely through dialogue interspersed with bits of indirect discourse and peeks into the minds of the characters who happen to be onstage at the moment. This method is undeniably exhilarating, the equivalent of being grabbed by the elbow and shoved into an especially deracinated cocktail party. But the fun grows a bit forced over the long haul; even the most bizarre conversations cannot forever hide the fact that not much of substance is happening. Handl's people are splendidly funny because they all, with the possible exception of Castleton...