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...failure to communicate Enrica's love, Miss Maraini has reduced much of her heroine's protestations to absurdity. On the other hand, if Enrica is indeed incapable of love, and has just been fooling herself and the reader with all her sexual antics, the hopeful note on which the book ends is unbelievable...
...curious way this could be Miss Maraini's point. By building in the reader a feelng of ennui perhaps she hopes to communicate that quality in Enrica's world. About the only variety in her life, and this too is minimal, are the scenes of her love-making. Usually it is in Cesare's bedroom, but once he takes her on the shore of a lake, and another boy makes her on the damp floor of an abandoned workman's shed...
...matter of record that Abraham Lincoln, granddaddy of the 1875 statute, was an habitual reader of the New York Tribune. And the Berlin correspondent of that paper was one Karl Marx. You can draw your own conclusions...
...journalist, Ved Mehta is not quite up to his own assignment. The most charitable view of his book is that it is a bit too successful in communicating to the reader the author's own state of quizzical bemusement as he plunges into a metaphysical brier patch...
Author Price writes just well enough to sharpen the reader's disappointment that he does not write better. The love affair is a fleshy banality, and Price's examination of the interrogator at work falls far short of Koestler's hard clarity. The best of the book shows the British army, all aclank with methodical, motorized idiocy, snark hunting after terrorists in the villages of Cyprus. Price's half-developed central idea leads disturbingly to the suspicion that if civilization does come to a halt, the last moving parts will have been not the generals...