Volume 22, Number 11 · June 26, 1975
Fathers and Children
By Christopher Ricks
The Conservationist
by Nadine Gordimer
Viking, 252 pp., $7.95
The Little Hotel
by Christina Stead
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 191 pp., $6.95
The Surface of Earth
by Reynolds Price
Atheneum, 431 pp., $12.50 (to be published in mid-July.)
Many people, perhaps, will not be happy until their parents are no longer alive, no longer able to do them down or do them harm; and many of those people will perhaps even then not be able to be happy. In the words of a recent poem by Philip Larkin:
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