Eighth Day and Coover Novel Reviewed in 1960s Critique
A lengthy critique compares Thomas Coover’s The Eighth Day and Thurman Wilder’s Coaltown, noting Coover’s ambitious allegory of a millennial cult in West Condon and Wilder’s tragedy driven tale in the Andes. The review commends Coover’s vigor and literary skill while criticizing pace and length, and praises Wilder’s humane clarity and universality, recommending both for different generations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thurman Wilder
Coaltown
High Andes
Wilder ix
San Lula Rey
Chicago
New York
Mr Wilder
Penguin The Terrible Door and Other Vintage Titles
Bookseller hunt for rare letters spirals into blackmail and murder in Penguin The Terrible Door. Other entries include The Pink and the Brown about love and tension in postcolonial India, The Pat Hobby Stories satire on Hollywood, Destination Void about astronaut consciousness, and A Hank of Hair a psychological horror tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penguin
George Sung Boe
Hugh Atkinson
India
Pat Hobby
W" Scott Fitzgerald
Boe
Fitzgerald
Hollywood
Hack
Tadling
Frank Herbert
Charlotte Jay
Mary
Omensetter's Luck and Other Reads Review
William Gass's Omensetter's Luck is praised for its dialectical energy and lyric language though told as a backwoods man’s plunge into a Midwest town. Stuart Cloete's Jean Macaque is noted for Parisian scandal sheet flair, while Albert Lewin's The Unaltered Cat is treated as a flawed supernatural tale with a misused plot device.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Macaque
Stuart Cloete
Collins
Price
Mbert Lewin
Harvill Press
Illiam Gass
Joyce
Faulkner
Melville
Gertrude Stein
Gass
Dylan Thomas
Ohio River
Peregrine and pesticides threat haunting East Anglia
A critical review of J A Baker’s The Peregrine and Bernhard Groimek’s Four-Legged Australia. The piece praises Bakers' vivid diary style detailing falcon behavior and the impact of farm chemicals on peregrines, noting dwindling numbers and the bird’s aristocratic image, with comparisons to Corbett’s tiger tales and reflections on conservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Corbett
Kumana
Corbett
J. A. Baker
Falcone
Bruin
Baker
Caiden's Public Bureaucracy Study at Melbourne Uni Press
A dense critique of Gerald E Caiden's three book series on Commonwealth public service. The review situates Caiden as a major 1960s contributor, notes his shift from politics and administration to environment, and cites method, language, and reliance on sociological framing. It highlights strengths in structure and synthesis, while questioning occasional overgeneralization and opaque sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nvite
Diaster
Omensetter
Eden
Jethro ‘Urber
Caiden
Australia
Commonwealth Public Service
Peanual
Howver
Lentatog
Calden
Burreaucracy
Commonwealth Service
Spron
Autralian
Dem Cer Doek
Pal
Cai
Faver
Au Polans Arning
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Thornton Wilder
Langmiamy
William Faulkner
Faulkner Foundation
Ines
Yyman
Thas
Colander
Rane
Coover
Rom Poignard
Ira
West Condon
John Whitwell
Miller
Bruno
Redempton
America
Manzoni
Seawall
Pearances
Mart
Anon
Latest Penguins
Ployd
Court Phans
ZYG
Omensetter's
William Fi. Gass
John Lleonart
Omeosetter
Stuart Coote
the Thouand
Jean Macaquy
New ‘York Times
J. Donleavy
Whix
Reed
Boulevard
Macaque
Paris
Freud
Desleavy
Albert Lewin
Inclus
Darian Gray
Lewin
Francis Ratcliffe
Sig
Bernhard Groimek
A. Baker
Hinds
Sulin
Tid Tor
Seach
Adapahitts
Ital
New Guinea
Mathie
Scholootmtes
Fraras Srm
Qorul Ab Orareek
Gerald E Gaiden
Melbourne University Press
de Cardenius
Fim ‘Ite
Feviewer
Tisk
Hut
Callen Hay
Cheet
Fei Hay Ai
Sita Bey
Enna
yNall Ste
Ronald Rowe
Giuth
Enipien
Foulkes
Suniel Seal Bay Het
Bays
Ievallv Aby
Ac Ve Ciera
Prune Apg, Dso
Iain de Yartnwee
New Zealand
Canberra Theatre Centre
Dynamic Football
Foothall
Ana
Ater
Verity Hewitt
Garema Arca
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