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...unpretentious sense of fate. No explanations are necessary when Beck Tull, a retired traveling salesman, attends the funeral of the wife he left 35 years before and acts as if he has been on a long business trip. This occurs at the end of Homesick Restaurant, and the reader is not surprised. The scene has had careful preparation, and Tull has been well defined by his absence. He is the black hole around which his wife Pearl and children Cody. Jenny and Ezra have had to exist. The novel opens with Pearl Tull, 85, dying and remembering. It then turns...
Forman: I've become a voracious reader of political commentary. I subscribe to about 10 or 12 magazines, most of them on the left, and I just try to read as much as I can. Besides that, I try to get as much news as I can first hand, watching the news conferences: I've got a short-wave radio, with which I pick up the news in the foreign countries from their point of view. So I look at all the information, and by and large, those who call themselves conservatives, I would say Will and (William F.) Buckley...
Dunne turns some good Irish shtik. There are scatological scenes that Richard Pryor might envy. But too often the shocks and surprises are only gratuitous. An introductory note informs the reader that the settings for Shea's recollections are the two cities where the author spent much of his life. That would be Hartford and Los Angeles, though neither is identified. Instead, Dunne maps the geography inside Dutch Shea's head. It is a wasteland of appalling dimensions...
...touched up the PT 109 story to increase his heroism, and pocketed a Pulitzer Prize (through his father's influence) for a book he did not actually write. A reader of second-rate adventure books, he became the darling of the intellectual and had them singing hosannas to the glorious power of the presidency. Finally, he got us into Vietnam with gusto, saw it as the perfect testing ground for his beloved counter-insurgency techniques...
...play about the inability of two men to traced their irrelevance. Unimportant in and of themselves, they cannot even gain confort from human championship; Chulkaturm suffers rejection and Zoditch forestalls it by taking the initiative and rejecting is not content however merely to relate a parable about a first reader a landowner, and a fifth horse. His play forces an unwelcome conclusion that this busy noisy Hurried thing called life is little is more than a futile lonely groping in the dark...