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...description of that loss is a met aphor for many youthful aspirations, not all of them athletic. Moreover, his loss is the reader's gain, for out of Ex-Pitcher Jordan's experience has come one of the best and truest books about baseball, and about coming to maturity hi America. Leo Durocher's book is worth reading. Pat Jordan's is worth remembering...
...grown up flat-chested, apparently more of a problem in the Jane Russell-dominated 50s than in the Twiggy-dominated 60s. After nine pages of breast-related anecdotes, all recounted with an exasperated detatchment that makes them funny rather than embarassing, Ephron finally comes right out and confronts the reader, her gradually building defensiveness spilling into half-joking accusation...
...warped. Everyone's a little crazy on at least one subject, and most women probably do feel that their craziness is in some way linked to their being women, so Ephron's naled confession of her own craziness sets up a sort of bond between her and the reader. It's probably only coincidental that this essay is the first in the book--the pieces are arranged chronologically but it somehow justifies Ephron's assertive presence in the next...
...lights in a field of black. Kosinski's terse, unstructured style has always created images of power and authenticity. Here he uses I-am-a-camerawork to fill the mind's eye, with scenes following one another like projected slides. Incidents are unobtrusively introduced until the reader seems to be a guest, then a participant in Tarden's intrigues. Some of those plans include obsessive sexual anguish that amounts to sadomasochism. Others concern the pornography of violence; a skiing accident, stained with blood and waste, and a murder by radar are as gripping and horrific...
Jerzy Kosinski's work glistens with social observation and psychological apprehension. Not since Conrad has an Eastern European found so profound a voice in the English tongue. Such relentless talent, such flashes of genius, make the reader hope one day for a book that can look past retribution to seek...