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...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, indirect style, which proves that the shortest distance between fact and feeling is not necessarily a straight line...
...HOUSE ON COLISEUM STREET (242 pp.)-Shirley Ann Grau-Knopf...
Shirley Ann Grau is a master of the Soft-Focus School of fiction. The events of her stories and novels are not so much perceived as vaguely apprehended, looming unexpectedly through an ambiance of feeling. In her oblique vision the disappointments of childhood are glimpsed in a puddle of frozen gutter water, the fears of adulthood suggested by the sharp, metallic smell of a nearly defunct streetcar line. The method can be tedious, but in her second novel, New Orleans-born Author Grau proves again that in the hands of a first-rate storyteller the shortest route between fact...
...Novelist Grau is deliberately vague about the outcome. What concerns her here, as in her earlier books (The Hard Blue Sky and The Black Prince and Other Stories), is not plot but the endless flux of feeling. Writers of encyclopaedic novels would do well to read her-and learn how to catch the shape of a lifetime in the merest shadow of an event...
...power I have achieved; I can never become President." In 1940 he became President. After four years Batista allowed his hand-picked successor to be defeated in Cuba's first honest election and retired to Daytona Beach to enjoy his graft. The administrations of Ramón Grau San Martin. (1944-48) and Carlos Prío Socarrás (1948-52) respected civil liberties but not the treasury. Prío amassed millions by the time he fled Batista's coup...