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...child of the prosperous American future can understand. (I'm doubly well-disposed toward House of Meetings because the hero - the narrator's saintly brother - is named Lev, an unusual choice which I accept as an homage a moi.) I reached Amis by phone in Philadelphia, where his book tour has taken him. We chatted about House of Meetings, the ego of the novelist, the boredom of good characters, and why the English hate writers...
...stop the history tour here, in part because I've written about Kurtzman and EC comics at length on this site, in part because Andrew Arnold has written with a scholar's eloquence and a fan's passion on the later artists in the Masters of American Comics show...
...doozy. Separated from his parents at 12 when rebel soldiers attacked his Sierra Leonean village, by 13 he was a child soldier and a drug addict. By 19 he was living in the U.S., at Oberlin College, in Ohio. In February he's starting on a book tour...
...first time, we are seeing life from behind the dead eyes of a killer child. And life is not good. How many people did he kill? "I really have no idea," Beah says during an interview in Paris, where he is taking some time off before his publicity tour. "I never thought to keep count. We attacked civilians, villagers--anyone the commander deemed was an enemy; we killed them. If you thought they maybe aided the rebels, you shot them. If they withheld food, you shot them. And if you came across a group of refugees who appeared too quickly...
...died, so Beah, who had visited New York City in 1996 as a guest of the U.N., eventually was adopted by a woman he met then. He went to school and college. And now, in one of those American-dreamlike turns, he's going on a 10-city book tour sponsored by Starbucks...