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...begrudge his eight months of hard labor. "Carpenters have a remarkably low incidence of mental illness," he insists. Reason: the psychological satisfaction of working with one's hands. Kahn's current place-the fourth in a series of handmade homesteads-is hardly a dream house. To ward off chilly breezes inside his cavernous, uninsulated dome, Kahn must tote a small kerosene stove around. But he is light-years ahead of others. His dome not only has indoor plumbing, but electric lights. Jenefer,* 29, a former schoolteacher, is not so lucky. For her hillside treehouse she pumps water from...
Alcoholism landed Lowry in the Skid Row ward at New York's Bellevue Hospital, a searing experience that became the subject of his novella Lunar Caustic. He was also jailed and deported from Mexico, the scene of Under the Volcano, a novel that took ten years, at least four revisions, and the love, patience and help of Lowry's second wife, Margerie Bonner, a former Hollywood actress. Given Day's cool, unenthusiastic and quite accurate assessment of Lowry's poetry and stories, it comes as something of a surprise to find him pulling...
...WARD JUST...
This built-in disparity may be unavoidable for a writer who insists on dealing at novel length with the highest levels of power. But by limiting his scope to 20 pages or so and by observing Washington at its fascinating upper-middle levels, Ward Just has been able to get his hands on substance that can be worked effectively into fiction. Just's settings are the private office of a moderately important Senator, a routinely luxurious Spring Valley living room, the featureless bachelor apartment of a CIA economist. In these and similar places, a little sex occurs, a little...
...reader feels a certain sympathy for these lofty wretches. Since they are not very likable or high-minded or deserving, but simply very human, this says a good deal for Ward Just's skill. There is not the slightest hint that the author has enrolled real people under fake names and with different hair colors. A laudable break with Washington literary tradition...