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...Hernandez. Just about 500 days. The Gulf station would have turned 50 in June of this year--at which point Harvard still could have destroyed it with permission from the city Historical Commission. It's a minor point, but it makes me wonder how many errors a more astute reader would have caught...
...search is more interesting than the man. While there is genuine mystery and suspense as to his origins, even a gullible reader may catch on to a colossal hint at the truth that appears roughly a third of the way through the text. No matter. This book is far more than a standard piece of genealogical sleuthing. Half its fascination lies in chapters that describe milieus rather than biographical detail. Frontier living in Tasmania when Reg was a boy, the realities of pickup vaudeville in the outback, the grim privations of war in Malta when he served there...
...first it seems as if Jong has deliberately created a boorish, self- deluded heroine, like the flawed narrator in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, whose unreliable confessions the reader learns to unravel and reinterpret. Nope. No such luck. Jong takes Leila Sand seriously. Worse yet, she expects the reader to do the same...
...vibrancy, The Quincunx occasionally seems to be too much of a good thing. In order to wring maximum suspense out of each encounter, Palliser allows his narrator some shameless stalling. "Not so fast," one character remarks, when asked a leading question, and the reader is inclined to mutter, "Faster." John's mother is particularly maddening in her refusals to answer her son's questions. A typical response: "No, I won't tell you that. Not yet. One day you'll know everything." Postulate a more forthcoming parent, and the novel would be 200 pages shorter...
...agent's advice, Freeman passed up the black-exploitation films of the early 1970s and instead took the role of the hip character Easy Reader on the public-television series The Electric Company. The job provided a steady income and made Freeman so famous with the preteen set that, to his great chagrin, he is still stopped in the street by fans. After a while, he felt trapped, hungering for meatier roles but needing the money to put bread on the table for his wife and two daughters. He began drinking heavily. "I'm not an alcoholic or anything...