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KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE by Shirley Ann Grau. 309 pages. Knopf...
Because the label "feminine" has come to be attached to the stylistic spinsterism and tiny ironies of both sexes, there is a temptation to miscall the writing of Shirley Ann Grau masculine. It is not, although the author has no trouble bringing to stage center a male in whom there is no sense of Bernhardt corseted as Hamlet...
...Night of the Generals is basically a detective story, and a good one. A prostitute is found brutally stabbed to death in wartime Warsaw; a witness claims to have seen a German general leaving her apartment. Major Grau of the Abwehr narrows the suspects down to three: General von Seydlitz-Gabler, a cautious, ineffectual commanding officer representing the Prussian military tradition; Major General Kahlenberge, his able and acerb chief of staff; and Lieutenant General Tanz, the dashing leader of the Nibelungen (Special Operations) Division. But Major Grau is reassigned, and does not resume his investigation until 1944--two years later...
...House on Coliseum Street, by Shirley Ann Grau. The emotional breakup of a young girl beset by a sordid family and a squalid love affair is told in the author's effective, soft-focus style...
...House on Coliseum Street, by Shirley Ann Grau. The emotional breakup of a young girl beset by a sordid family and a squalid love affair is told in the author's effective, soft-focus style...