Volume 43, Number 15 · October 3, 1996
Only in Amerika
By J.M. Coetzee
The Bride of Texas
by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Káca Polácková Henley
Knopf, 437 pp., $27.00
Headed for the Blues: A Memoir
by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Káca Polácková Henley
Ecco Press, 149 pp., $23.00
The bride of Texas, in Josef Skvorecky´'s new novel, is not from Texas at all. Born in the 1830s to a family of tenant farmers in Moravia, then a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Lida Toupelikova ought by rights to marry one of the neighbors' sons and spend the rest of her life raising children and doing drudge-work. But besides having a pretty face and striking blue eyes, she burns with ambition to climb the social ladder.
Review, 3650 words
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