Volume 21, Number 21 & 22 · January 23, 1975
At Least One Way
By John Thompson
No Way
by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Sheila Cudahy
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 161 pp., $5.95
Touch the Water, Touch the Wind
by Amos Oz. translated by Nicholas de Lange in collaboration with the author
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 179 pp., $5.95
No Way is a very short novel, bare and bleak as bones. Its ominous English title is appropriate enough for its mood, except for the easy current slanginess of that phrase, mouthed by so many of us now on trivial occasions. In Natalia Ginzburg's Italian it was simply Caro Michele (1973), the form of salutation in the letters that tell much of the story.
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