Volume 24, Number 9 · May 26, 1977

Hostages

By Roger Sale
Earthly Possessions
by Anne Tyler

Knopf, 200 pp., $7.95

Who Is Teddy Villanova?
by Thomas Berger

Delacorte, 247 pp., $7.95

Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko

Richard Seaver/Viking, 262 pp., $10.00

One can say much in the first person, and during the last twenty years or so many American novelists have imagined they could say virtually anything. But the 'I' presents problems, limits, unwonted consequences, too:



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