Volume 22, Number 2 · February 20, 1975
Academic Vaudeville
By Thomas R. Edwards
The King's Indian: Stories and Tales
by John Gardner, illustrated by Herbert L. Fink
Knopf, 323 pp., $8.95
The Shadow Knows
by Diane Johnson
Knopf, 277 pp., $6.95
The Odd Woman
by Gail Godwin
Knopf, 419 pp., $8.95
The Clockwork Testament or Enderby's End
by Anthony Burgess
Knopf, 161 pp., $6.95
Novels by and/or about teachers of literature can be a tiresome subgenre which, since it's hard to imagine anyone else being interested, seems usually intended for teachers of literature. The assumptions that the scholastic life somehow represents life itself or that it qualifies one to practice literature aren't ones that dentists or bus drivers or shoe salesmen seem to make about their own professions, a modesty that ought to be encouraged. Still, it is a pleasure to find pieces from the academy with life in them.
Review, 4153 words
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