Volume 22, Number 18 · November 13, 1975
Fathers & Fathers & Sons
By Roger Sale
Northern Lights
by Tim O'Brien
Delacorte, 356 pp., $8.95
Look How the Fish Live
by J.F. Powers
Knopf, 190 pp., $6.95
Beyond the Bedroom Wall
by Larry Woiwode
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 619 pp., $12.50
Is it possible to read The Sun Also Rises too often? Sad and charming and funny, young in just the right way, unbesmirched by, what makes so much other Hemingway foolish or wrong, it retains its magic the tenth time through. Yet Tim O'Brien has read it too often, let it sink into him too deeply. Though set in a town in the Arrowhead country of Minnesota, Northern Lights gives us Bill Gorton, in Robert Cohn's position, talking to Jake Barnes:
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