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...story behind the story: the neatly piled clothes that had fallen out of a suitcase, the bottle of after-shave lotion that was unbroken amid the debris. "Everything seems to survive," he thought then, "except people." For his story, he strung those images together, a sportswriter taking the reader to places and situations in the sports world where no purchased ticket would ever permit him entry...
This week, as always, Callahan's goal is to take the reader behind the sport scene-and into the best seat in the house...
Author Hildesheimer wastes no time telling us that he is the sort of fellow more interested in the hole than the doughnut. "Our task," he states, "is to blot out existing ideas, but not to mediate between Mozart and the reader. On the contrary, the intention of this study is to make the distance between both sides even greater . . . between Mozart's inner life and our inadequate conception of its nature and dimension...
...sympathetic characters, Oates adds authenticity through extensive research and the use of actual period pieces within the text such as The Ladies Wreath (1847). The wedding day Book (1882), and Psychical Research Science and Religion (1925). The almost unimaginable scope of plot and characters contributes as well leaving the reader dazed and satisfied. Humor social commentary and adventure make an odd mixture, but here they combine into something strange and wonderful a Little Women rewritten by a literary descendant of Mary McCarthy and Virginia Woolf...
...bottle of orange-flavored medicine to a full figure corset almost escape our conscious notice. A Bloodsmoor Romance, although packed with laughs and adventure cannot be read quickly and its prodigious length barely serves to tie up all the loose ends. Not many apparently light contemporary novels leave the reader feeling so punch drunk...