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...Philadelphia, police reopened the case of William Pascual, a 26-year-old graduate student at the Wharton School of Business, who had been found dead of cyanide poisoning in his apartment last April 3. His death had been ruled a suicide, largely on the strength of a note Pascual had mailed to his mother in Arlington, Va. ("Dear Mom: It wasn't your fault. It was mine, all mine"). At the time, analysis of three Tylenol capsules from a bottle found in a shoe in the closet uncovered no poison, but analysis last week of the remaining capsules, which...
FICTION: Mantissa, John Fowles -A Midnight Clear, William Wharton Monsignor Quixote, Graham Greene My Old Sweetheart, Susanna Moore Selected Stories, Robert Walser The Third World War, General Sir John Hackett
...gentle hero of William Wharton's third novel explains: "Our family name is Knott. My parents wanted to call me Bill or Billy, but because there's no Saint Bill or Billy, I was named William. They insist no joke was intended. By third grade at school, I was Will Knott. I learned to live with it, my private martyrdom. So I was more or less prepared to grit it out again in the army, Willingly or Knott (Ha!). What I wasn't ready for was the conglomeration of certified wise guys and punsters called...
Apparently the Germans have also read All Quiet on the Western Front, and in the original. Enough said. A Midnight Clear, like William Wharton's previous novels, Birdy and Dad, does not benefit from having its plot laid bare. The author's gift is an ability to convey emotional clarity in simple prose that transforms incongruities into sharp visual impressions. Snowy woods are both Christmas cards and killing grounds; the château is fortress and cultural repository. A violin liberated from beneath the rafters becomes part of an unusual still life when it is casually set against...
This sense of dislocation is deepened by the knowledge that William Wharton is the pseudonym of an obscure, publicity-shy American painter who served with the Army in World War II. How much of the book is autobiography? Probably a good deal. Generally, the more one learns about novelists, the more one realizes how little they make up from scratch. Those who believe in fiction, however, will find such matters of secondary interest. Will Knott, who sketches his surroundings on the backs of K-ration boxes, speaks to William Wharton's ideal reader when he says that his drawing...