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...FOLKS THAT LIVE ON THE HILL by Kingsley Amis (Summit; $18.95). Britain's sharpest satirist has not lost his edge in this social comedy about a retired librarian who is busier than ever coping with modern inconveniences...
...have finally got to that point where Kingsley Amis can be introduced as Martin Amis' father. For those who have forgotten, he was the most talented satirist among Britain's angry young men of the 1950s. He is also the novelist who has kept the sharpest edge through the '60s, '70s and '80s. Class and sex wars are his specialties, and he is a scarred veteran of both. Harry Caldecote, the retired librarian in Amis' 20th novel, The Folks That Live on the Hill, should be beyond all that fiddle. "He had taken an early retirement deal just ahead...
...Calf, Solzhenitsyn makes a great deal of my supposed naivete, my impracticality and especially my susceptibility to "pernicious" influences. Among those who (in his view) have hitched themselves to "this strange, huge, conspicuous balloon, which was soaring to the heights without engine or petrol" -- me -- Solzhenitsyn's sharpest, if covert, thrusts are aimed at my wife. Her "deleterious" influence, he suggests, led me to harp on emigration by Jewish refuseniks -- people "who did not feel that Russia was their own country...
...deLone arguably fought the sharpest battle but came up short in her three-set struggle against the Jennifer "No Pain" Lane, the fourth-ranked player in the East...
...work -- one of three investigations into South Africa being published just as that nation has assumed a new moral significance -- reduces previous histories to the status of antiques. His title, The Mind of South Africa, is a misnomer: the nation has many minds, most of them in conflict. The sharpest divisions, Sparks observes, originated in the 19th century, when immigrant Boers -- the Dutch word for farmers -- feuded with their English overlords in the Cape Colony. When Britain forbade slavery, the Boers' Great Trek began. Kipling caught their spirit: "His neighbours' smoke shall vex his eyes, their voices break his rest...