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...power to enchant and destroy; dogs and cats provide unusual escapes for the trapped and the lonely. Donoso balances lean, graceful prose with a sense of the psychological arabesque. It is a fine combination for modern ghost stories in which the reader may recognize phan toms of himself. R.Z. Sheppard...
...animals as prisoners to be eaten. There are echoes here of William Golding's The Inheritors, in which Homo sapiens wipes out the noble Neanderthal. Golding's text was suited for the grim '50s. Williams' happier ending is blended for the granola '70s. R.Z. Sheppard...
...Behind this elegant raillery, Galbraith maintains a cool, doctor-patient relationship with the world. The combination of wit and seriousness makes him a distinguished popularizer and advocate who can waltz through wars, revolutions, famines, depressions and global follies without ever losing the crease of his Savile Row prose. R.Z. Sheppard...
...love poetry and Dante, and in his grand solitude, which whistles mournfully through the book. Warren tells us much about the forms of love-not the least of which he has elsewhere set forth in poetry: "In our imagination/ What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge. " R.Z. Sheppard...
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