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...crew came in during the broadcast, having located the crew of a plane lost in the jungle. Many kinds of supplies are parachuted to lost crews: red blankets and junk jewelry for barter with the natives; playing cards and cribbage boards; Bibles, mess kits, boots, mountain rations, chewing gum, razor blades, ciga-rets, soap, canned beer...
...RAZOR'S EDGE - W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday, Doran...
Somerset Maugham, always a discreet man, has been so imprudent as to live to a ripe age (70) when novelists are usually far past their prime. But, unlike some of his other books, The Razor's Edge is not a potboiler. Nor is it a mess of dotage. It deserves to rank after Of Human Bondage (1915) and The Moon and Sixpence (1919) as one of his three major novels...
...back from war unwilling to go to college, unwilling to settle down and marry wealthy Isabel Bradley-even indifferent to the Parisian fleshpots offered him by Isabel's expatriate Uncle Elliott. He wanders through Europe picking up saints and sinners, already feeling that "the sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over . . . the path to Salvation is hard." Each time he reappears among his friends he is a little more remote and baffling...
Perhaps 20 years ago Maugham could not have written about either mysticism or Americans with quite so straight a face. For all his life Maugham has endeavored to write skillfully and never in passion. Now age and art have refined his feelings to the vanishing point. The Razor's Edge is the crowning triumph of that utterly dispassionate virtuosity to which he has always aspired-a persuasive as well as an entertaining book, by a man of 70 who is still "of the earth, earthy," about a young man who has found a faith...