Volume 40, Number 3 · January 28, 1993
Peacetime Lies
By Gabriele Annan
The Man Who Was Late
by Louis Begley
Knopf, 243 pp., $21.00
Louis Begley published his first novel last year. It was autobiographical, about a young Jewish boy in occupied Poland being coached to pass as a Christian, and succeeding. It was called Wartime Lies. The new novel is in many ways a sequel, and could well be called Peacetime Lies. The hero is a postwar Jewish child immigrant. Back home his father was a respected lawyer and he himself 'the Little Lord Fauntleroy of a Central European town.' In New Jersey they are disoriented and poor.
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