Word: talled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Read, was previously known as a novelist (Monk Dawson, The Professor's Daughter, The Upstart). His new book is difficult to accept as either fact or fiction. First, there are the project's origins, described in Read's introduction: "Toward the end of April, 1976, a tall, well-dressed South African walked into the offices of the London publishers W.H. Allen and Co. and offered to sell them the confessions of the celebrated Great Train Robbers ... Reluctant to sign up the thieves without an author to write their story, the publishers invited me to come to London...
...Biko became another martyr for the liberation struggle. It is hard to believe that, so long as apartheid continues to impose injustice daily on the people of South Africa, there will not be many more, dying in jail cells and on the streets, so that their children can walk tall and free...
...composition of a story. But he never abandons his book's true aim: the reclamation of three underrated authors and friends: Robert M. Coates, Conrad Aiken and Erskine Caldwell. Of the trio, Coates is the least read and the most appealing. Parisians of the '20s remembered the tall redhead bicycling through the streets: "He looked like a flag," one of them said. Coates was The New Yorker's art critic and the author of acute social novels and stories (The Farther Shore, The Hour After Westerly). One encomium on his work is contained in an aside: "Once...
...evening has the flavor of a tall tale recounted by an accomplished barroom raconteur. The story derives from a little civic melodrama that really took place in a small Texas town some years ago, and it is engagingly rich in regional nostalgia and spiced with delicate bawdry. Not surprisingly, the co-author of the libretto is a storyteller of no mean skill, Larry L. King, an accomplished journalist who wrote a compact account of the actual facts underlying Whorehouse after they occurred. To tell it as it is in the show, a rural community, Gilbert, has long tolerated, secretly relished...
...surprised, upon arriving in the U.S., to find his fears alleviated. He did not encounter "tall rock buildings and people always in a hurry, unable to talk," but rather friendly and appreciative audiences...