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After Shirley Jackson, Ira Levin et al., Maloff can hardly rock the reader with such corny corn-god doings Yet he handles the shift from Teddy bears to ritual sacrifice with skill, tact and humor. He has also produced a fable for our feminist times...
Magdoff, Harry, The Age of Imperialism, New York, Modern Reader Paperbacks...
...perhaps the only original, yet uncommitted, modern Lating American writer. But Marquez directly faces U.S. exploitation is grotesque, often surrealistic terms. Marquez's novel has had extremely wide circulation in South America, has been read by people who would hever read the poems of Vallejo, even by fanatic reader of Agatha Christie translations...
...forced to leave her home to become a prostitute in order to secure the money needed to pay for the release of her parents who had been unjustly harassed by the Imperial authorities. Huynh Sanh Tong's translation of The Tale of Kieu (Vintage paperback, $1.95) offers the American reader a unique perspective of Vietnamese life...
...thing the reader cannot imagine is Merriwether's ecstasy or pain really breaking through his creamy Harvard style. As if reversing Merriwether's dictum, Other Men's Daughters finally says what Stern may least want it to say: "Life gets you-through habits." ·Melvin Maddocks