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...Rembrandt, Schmitt...
...Agony and the Ecstasy,Stone (1)* 2. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (2) 3. Mila 18, Uris (3) 4. The Edge of Sadness, O'Connor (5) 5. The Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck (4) 6. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins (6) 7. Tropic of Cancer, Miller (7) 8. Rembrandt, Schmitt (8) 9. A Shooting Star, Stegner (9) 10. Mothers and Daughters, Hunter
...Rembrandt, Schmitt...
...REMBRANDT, by Gladys Schmitt (657 pp.; Random House; $5.95), is a fictional retelling of the relatively few known facts about Rembrandt van Rijn's life. Novelist Schmitt (David the King, The Gates of Aulis) scraped every document, household inventory, drawing, etching and painting for underlying drama-and added countless tableaux of her own, which unfortunately look more like the sentimental Dante Gabriel Rossetti than Rembrandt...
...stillborn or die in infancy before a sickly son survives. Then the wife dies, the child's loving nurse goes mad, an apprentice is blown to smithereens in an accident. All this Author Schmitt tells, and sometimes poignantly. But long before she gets to the real tragedies in Rembrandt's life, she has squandered the reader's ability to react. In the first half of the book, each argument or frustration is magnified into a crisis; every silence is strained or charged. Despite such emotional impasto, the book has some authority in the field of art, where...