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HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT 20 August 1890-17 February 1937 Since I was born after Lovecraft died, I knew of him only through seeing his books' lurid covers on paperback stands in airports and bus waiting rooms. The usual dust-jacket photograph of the author shows a youngish man with a lantern jaw and a rather startled expression. A bit of research at my university library revealed that his entire oeuvre consists of some 53 stories, plus assorted fragments and collaborations. Yet the writer has become a sort of cult figure and his books sell both consistently and well-over...
...American reader is hard put to take Hil ary Fletcher's miseries as solemnly as he does himself- even if one grants that a second-rate British public school is "worse than prison" and that hell knows no torment like an Englishman at the hunt ball whose jacket fails to fit. Alas, The Upstart stipulates that exactly this sort of class embarrassment can still drive a dated Angry Young Man to organize ten years of his life so that he may debauch the daughters of the neighboring lord of the manor in their silk-sheeted beds, wipe...
Sister Nickie recalls that Vince's main concern in life was to be differ ent. When all the other kids were wearing jeans and T shirts to school, he sported a jacket and tie. "Pretty soon everybody else started dressing up, and when that happened, he started dressing down," she says. "With a personality like that, you had to know he was going to do something to get himself out in front...
...LIKE TO forget that beneath the jacket of this book the initials "PR" are emblazoned into the cover, like a Brooks Brothers bathrobe, or a towel set. I would like to not care who Philip Roth is, whether or not he has earned the license to write a novel so apparently decadent and outrageous, or whether this is the appropriate follow-up to a story about a gargantuan sci-fi mammary gland. The Great American Novel is certainly utterly bereft of Greatness, but it is great in the way that Tony the Tiger intones the word...
Decay. All in character, of course. Archer is as much loser as winner. In his wash-and-wear slacks and sports jacket he shoulders resentfully among the heedless rich and the heedless young who are the villains of Macdonald's recurrent daydream, and ours. Roughly at first, then with a rough man's compassion, he rubs their noses in mortality, the loser's truth. See the proud millionaire grovel, as Archer spades up the moldering past! See the sneering teenager whine, as Archer lays bare the certain decay that lies ahead...