Volume 17, Number 1 · July 22, 1971
Convulsive Throes
By Christopher Ricks
The Live Goat
by Cecil Dawkins
Harper & Row, 266 pp., $6.95
On Being Told That Her Second Husband Has Taken His First Lover & Other Stories
by Tess Slesinger
Quadrangle, 396 pp., $6.95
Eisenhower, My Eisenhower
by Jerome Charyn
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 178 pp., $5.95
Bad News
by Paul Spike
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 152 pp., $5.95
What are the roots that clutch American fiction? Nearly 150 years ago, William Hazlitt seized a gist—or at any rate what an Englishman repeatedly returns to as a gist. No roots; stony rubbish?
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