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Exploring these questions Australian Novelist Keneally seems to write from within the marrow of his protagonist. Without blinking the horror, which is based on a real incident, he makes it what it rarely seems to be in real life: plausible and thus human...
...protagonist, a young teacher named Phil Hatcher, is a compulsive player of horses, poker, craps - any ritual of chance on which he can stake his life or his rent money. His marriage goes, his career more or less disintegrates, but the "action" remains. Gambling - worked at, lovingly labored over, the Morning Telegraph studied with a Talmudic precision - becomes the last pure arena of sheer individualistic intellect: the mind in combat with the odds. Guetti's scenes at Aqueduct and Monmouth Park, at craps tables and poker parties, have a tense authenticity. Thousands of dollars roll in and out with...
...farces depend on so many devices, visual tricks, wordplays, multiple entrances and exits, that only a well-disciplined company can hope to make sense (or nonsense) of them. The High Tor Company does remarkably well at meeting the requirements of Feydeau. Jeffrey Peters as Bois-D'Enghien, the protagonist who loves too wisely and too much, carries himself like a sophisticated Groucho Marx. Rocco Piccolomini as the General is a fine old fashioned zany with a phony moustache and a phony accent to match, both of which contribute immeasurably to his persona, as he and the posturing poetaster Bouzin (Michael...
...very far with ideas. He doesn't link up Dresden with any inherent political or social conflicts it symbolizes, implying instead a state of moral squalor necessary for such a catastrophe to have taken place. And his vision is only that of Bill Pilgrim, a stupid if sweethearted protagonist, bumbling between the Ilium upper-middle-class of Vonnegut's present, the Dresden holocaust, and the planet Tralfamadore, where he cavorts with a nubile Hollywood starlet in a fantasy-world designed to protect him from being fatally bound to his depressing earthliness...
This time (the 14th), Ambler's protagonist is someone called Michael Howell. He is, in fact, deceptively named and only "fractionally British," less one man than "a committee of several," according to his mistress, a mixture of Lebanese, Armenian, Syrian and Greek Cypriot. Out of innocence, cupidity and ill fortune, Howell finds himself dragged whimpering into cooperation with Arab guerrillas so sleazy that they have been disowned by a Palestine liberation organization...