Volume 22, Number 13 · August 7, 1975
Adventures of the Deep
By Thomas R. Edwards
Far Tortuga
by Peter Matthiessen
Random House, 408 pp., $10.95
The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium and Other Novels
by Harry Mathews
Harper & Row, 561 pp., $2.95 (paper)
The Great Victorian Collection
by Brian Moore
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 213 pp., $7.95
It is unsettling to open Peter Matthiessen's Far Tortuga and see not the usual blocks of rectangular prose but bits of verbal stuff scattered about among portentous-looking blank spaces:
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