Volume 19, Number 2 · August 10, 1972
Squish
By Michael Wood
To Smithereens
by Rosalyn Drexler
New American Library, 187 pp., $5.95
The Adventures of Mao on the Long March
by Frederic Tuten
Citadel Press, 121 pp., $5.95
The Taxi
by Violette Leduc, translated by Helen Weaver
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 81 pp., $4.95
Suitably, the two meet in a darkened movie-house, where Paul puts a tentative hand on Rosa's thigh. Rosa grabs the hand and squeezes hard ('His bones rose toward the middle of my relentless palm like a log jam'), then whacks Paul across the wrist, and they are all set for a beautiful friendship. When money runs out, Paul induces Rosa to become a lady wrestler (with Bobby Fox's 'troupe of gorgeous grapplers'), and the rest of the book retails the intermittences of her affair with Paul, and the picaresque performances of the wrestling team and hangers-on on tour in Florida and Mexico.
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