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...UNICORN GIRL, by Caroline Glyn The 19-year-old novelist, a great-granddaughter of English Novelist Elinor Glyn, takes the reader on a hilarious guided tour of a Girl Guide summer camp, where chaos reigns unrestrained and girlish tears flow often...
...SHORTER FINNEGANS WAKE, by James Joyce, edited by Anthony Burgess. Novelist Burgess (A Clockwork Orange) has pulled Joyce's astronomical Dublin masterpiece into the general reader's field of vision simply by cutting out two-thirds of it. There is still plenty of wit and wordplay left...
...disappointment, though, is that Isherwood stints. Patrick is fully as alive as Sally Bowles, the heroine of Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, and could support a longer novel. But Patrick is too briefly met. For the reader taken with the charming villain, A Meeting by the River is only a teaser...
...Series. Such achievements did not daunt the contradictions in his personality. Against the theoretical wisdom of his 1929 paean, Marriage and Morals, must be set the preposterous practice of his own love life-a comedy more apparent to the reader than to the author. He was a puritan possessed of, or by, a powerful sexual nature. He tells about his industrious masturbation-at 94, he should surely allow himself to forget what he was doing at 15-and of the first time he fell in love, presumably with someone other than himself. His unhappy choice was Alys Pearsall Smith...
This curiously distilled method of storytelling proves effective and makes something lyrical of a rather commonplace romance. Dream-walking, the reader follows the narrator and his lovers through a lightly perfumed garden of erotic nuances. The encounters of Dean and Anne-Marie seem to require not reading but sensing, as if the touch of the eye were almost too much for reality. And when at last the dream breaks, it is not with a shatter but a silent splintering of crystal fragments...