Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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CASANOVA'S CHINESE RESTAURANT, by Anthony Powell. The fifth installment of The Music of Time, in which Britain's most delicate and coruscating social Geiger counter moves through the class shambles of the late 30s.
The long chase proves that Author Ustinov has not yet mastered the art of creating suspense, but it does give him a chance to do what he does best : hold up national types to clever, cynical scrutiny. His police colonel is cast as a stock Italian official, part scoundrel, part...
Hans loses out, of course, but not until Ustinov has worked some of the most quixotic flimflam in recent fiction. Characters deliver speeches that are fluent and often funny but almost never credible. What The Loser leaves behind is a sense of regret that so many nice touches have been...
THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, by Nikos Kazantzakis. To this excellent Greek writer, God and man were one. His last book, a biographical novel of Christ, reflects the spiritual torment of the man who wrote it. His Christ is neither the Jesus who is worshipped as the Son of God...
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, by Harper Lee. The little-girl heroine is only five when the book begins, only nine when it ends, but in that time she learns a lot about life in her Southern town and about life's continuing confrontation of good and evil. A fine...