Volume 29, Number 13 · August 12, 1982
Public Faces
By Robert M. Adams
The Portage to San Cristòbal of A.H.
by George Steiner
Simon and Schuster, 170 pp., $13.95
The Frog Who Dared to Croak
by Richard Sennett
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 182 pp., $11.95
Between terms of service as prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli wrote not the worst novel of the nineteenth century; he was one of the precursors. Since then, philosophers and pundits, sages and statesmen have turned to fiction, either to relieve their minds of lighter thoughts or to reach a wider audience. The two books under review are by men not hitherto known for their exploits in the novel.
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