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...GRAVELY, by Iris Dornfeld. A novel written by a musician about a slum boy who composes an electronic symphony and finally gets to hear it performed in the Hollywood Bowl. In telling about this unlikely hero, the author perceptively delineates the terrible disease and destiny that is genius...
...GRAVELY, by Iris Dornfeld. A novel written by a musician about a slum boy who composes an electronic symphony from the sounds he has heard all his life and finally gets to hear it performed in the Hollywood Bowl. In telling about this unlikely hero, the author delineates the terrible disease and destiny that is genius...
...GRAVELY by Iris Dornfeld. 212 pages. Knopf...
Surprisingly he is also accepted as such by the reader. This second novel by Iris Dornfeld (Jeeney Ray), who is the wife of Nation Editor Carey McWilliams and a musician in her own right, has many faults-among them a bifurcated plot structure and an occasionally cluttered style. But it has one peculiar and overriding merit. In the contorted, possessed character of Boy Gravely, Author Dornfeld has created a marvelously perceptive delineation of the terrible disease and destiny that is genius...