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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Sep 27, 2009 04:34pm |
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| Category | Review |
| Author | C.V. Terry |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Sunday, January 11, 1948 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Presented as the case history of a standard homosexual, this novel adds little that is new to a groaning shelf. Mr. Vidal's approach is coldly clinical: there is no real attempt to involve the reader's emotions, as the author sets down Jimmie's life story--his first experience during his high school days, his life as a cabin boy, a tennis bum, his adventures in Hollywood and points East. Backdrops are gaudy, and Jimmie's more ardent acquaintances include a picture star (the idol of a million bobby soxers), a fashionable novelist and members of the armed forces. But the over-all picture is as unsensational as it is boring. Jimmie comes through as a dull young ox indeed, a doomed young ox who seems suspiciously in love with his doom, and wearies the reader beyond endurance with his endless self-questioning. Like his technique in the beat bars, his failure to grasp his "essence" has a discouraging sameness. Mr. Vidal's Williwaw was more than merely promising: this time, he has produced a novel as sterile as its protagonist. |
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