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FICTION 1 -The Winds of War, Wouk (1 last week) 2-Wheels, Hailey (2) 3-The Day of the Jackal, Forsyth (3) 4-The Assassins, Kazan (5) 5-The Exorcist, Blatty (4) 6-The Betsy, Robbins (6) 7-Rabbit Redux, Updike (7) 8-The Blue Knight, Wambaugh (9) 9-Our Gang, Roth (8) 10-The Peaceable Kingdom, de Hartog
Every few years I spend a bit of time seeing my grandmother and my aunt, who live in a big house in Winchester about 50 miles from London. My grandmother is no rich, but my grandfather was a knight, and so she has a certain position to maintain. For years Mrs. Aslett (or perhaps it was Haslett: no one know) has come in every day except Sunday to cock and clean, My grandmother is fond of her in an irritated sort of way: "She's a good soul, but she does creep about the house...
...BLUE KNIGHT by JOSEPH WAMBAUGH 338 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...Blue Knight is Bumper Morgan, a 49-year-old patrolman on the verge of retirement after 20 years in the L.A.P.D. Wambaugh almost challenges his reader: "You want a pig? I'll show you a real pig." Bumper is a flatulent, potbellied, 275-lb. prototype of the bulls that demonstrators love to hate. The caricature is deliberate; the author means to endow a stereotype with complexity and sentiment. Bumper has his own street ethics: "When it came to accepting things from people on my beat, I did have one rule - no money. I never felt bought...
...bucket seat and drives mankind. By now I should be a literary footnote. But no: the paperback sold more than 3,000,000 copies between 1953 and 1964. And even more between then and now. How do you figure that? I mean, those glancing insights, those adolescent knight-errantries, aren't they old news? Haven't our tastes altered 180 degrees...