Volume 19, Number 5 · October 5, 1972
News from Elsewhere
By Thomas R. Edwards
My Michael
by Amos Oz, translated by Nicholas de Lange
Knopf, 287 pp., $6.95
The Western Coast
by Paula Fox
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 333 pp., $7.95
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness
by Charles Bukowski
City Lights Books, 478 pp., $3.95 (paper)
I Come as a Thief
by Louis Auchincloss
Houghton Mifflin, 231 pp., $6.95
Mumbo Jumbo
by Ishmael Reed
Doubleday, 223 pp., $6.95
Here are five books of fiction that offer news from elsewhere. As in some Warner Brothers B-17 crew, all the groups are represented: we have a Jew (Israeli), a woman, an 'ethnic' white, a patrician wasp, and a black, a diversity which should provide any reader with sufficient remoteness. But each writer is more than his or her background, more distant than any gross differentiation can indicate.
Review, 3360 words
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