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...song My Yiddische Mama between rosaries only to have his altar-boy son later edit the writings of the Lubavitcher rebbe; and on the "dead parents and overbearing parents...the fears of emptiness and the hopes of bounty" that inform such God-wrestling. So generous and natural a memoirist is Dubner, however, that awareness of his book's formidable double motor recedes in our pleasure at his recollections...
...rather "the waters of life" or "the spirits that cheer" or "the squeezings of Bacchus." When Malachy meets an Irish actor, he does his all too customary stage-Irish routine: "Begod, Sir, you'd never think the man was from Cork, atall, atall..." And here is our thoughtful memoirist on his conduct during his first wife's first pregnancy: "There was many the night I wouldn't return to the marital bed, as there would be the bed of a nubile, adoring young thing to be tried for the resiliency of its springs, and whose walls needed acoustical testing...
TRAGIC HEROINE OF THE YEAR: Widowed skater and best-selling memoirist Ekaterina Gordeeva...
...militants who learned to exploit the press for publicity. His literary ambitions and his eventual decision to become a journalist suggest a more moderate man's need to examine experience in a cooler light. But his sharp skills as a journalist do not always serve him well as a memoirist. The emotional temperature drops steadily as Halevi writes about his disaffection with the JDL, his marriage to a woman with a Mayflower pedigree who converts to Judaism, the birth of his children, the death of his father and, eventually, the Halevi family's immigration to Israel...
Vidal turns 70 this month, a fitting time for a man of letters to turn his hand to recollections. But in Palimpsest (Random House; 438 pages; $27.50), he proves a reluctant memoirist. Elsewhere he has confessed that he only embarked on this book in order to stay a step ahead of two biographers. For Vidal the resurrection of his early life (the story ends when he is 39) seems to be an irksome enterprise, and the book reads that...