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...second prize in the Anderson Award competition, "The Reprisal." Mark Bramhall, an Osbornian iconoclast, puts a reckless, sensuous man into the collar of a divinity student, then sticks both man and collar in one corner of a writhing triangle. The dialogue blazes with violent, staccato speeches as David, the protagonist, banters and bickers with his mistress and the good girl in the piece. Occasionally the sarcasm and the yelling get childishly out of hand, but as a whole the drama is exciting, exhausting, and superb...
...Gospels say nothing about Jesus' sexuality? One reason, Driver suggests, may be that Christ himself is the "great neutralizer" of the religious meaning of sex. In other literature of saviour figures and spiritual heroes, the protagonist is either "a champion of sexual renewal or a warrior against the 'demonic' sexual force." Jesus, even though he condemned sexual transgression, saw sex in itself neither as a barrier in the way of salvation nor as a condition of spiritual blessedness. He accepted it as a fact of life-not as something subject to either divine or demonic power...
Honest Man. Lind, the son of Austrian Jews who were deported and killed by the Nazis, mocks German pretensions of decency with slapstick caricature in the long title story. Wolbricht, the protagonist, prides himself on his honesty. A one-legged veteran of World War I, he is employed by a Jewish couple to care for their paralytic son, Anton. When the parents are ordered off to an extermination camp, he agrees to take care of Anton in return for the lease to their apartment...
...fresh water in the world. In places it is so wide that a steamer sailing up the middle cannot keep both banks in sight. Even 800 miles inland, dolphins arch through its surface and cormorants skim its waves. For Author Ogburn, the River Sea is both setting and protagonist for a rousing, sprawling, splendidly old-fashioned story of high adventure and romantic idealism...
...Thus begins what the reader fears will be just another could-he-or-couldn't-he-go-home-again book. And it is, save for a couple of differences. For one, First Novelist Anne Tyler, 22, approaches commonplaces with uncommon empathy, insight and wit; and for another, her protagonist has to address himself to an additional puzzle. The chill on Manhattan's Morningside Heights is nothing compared with that in the hearts of his family...