'Solo' recalls youthful wanderings
“Solo. An American
Dreamer in Europe: 1933-34”
by Wright Morris
Penguin Books
191 pages
In 1933 23-year-old
American author Wright Mor
ris sailed across the Atlantic
on an adventure-seeking year
long journey that took him to
Austria, Italy and France.
Morris, who was then a
curious upstart just out of college, did what every
young hopeful writer yearns to do ... he embark
ed on a search for experience and understanding
— to absorb and investigate.
He traveled alone, without tour guides or
sweethearts, with money he had saved from a few
summer odd jobs. He didn’t cart along a strict
itinerary, but instead chose to live in and learn
about a few select areas.
Now after 50 years and undoubtedly a great
deal of retrospection, Morris has bestowed upon
us a gem of remembrance. His recent book
“Solo," polished and uncluttered, is a delectable
account of those twelve or so months. Like real
maple syrup or feather pillows, “Solo” is a small,
simple delight, ideal reading for evenings by the
fire, after Algebra,
Morris, whose “Plains Song” won the
American Book Award for Fiction in 1981, is a
master of detailed prose and acute observation. A
seasoned author, he is gifted with the art of
employing irony and wit to engage and entertain.
Morris remembers, as he set out on his trip
that he “was not without experience, of an artless
sort . .” He goes on: “As the author of ‘The
sun/Sweat through the fog’ 1 was not without a
show of style and substance.”
After an autumn in Vienna; a winter with the
eccentric Deleglise family at Schloss Renna, a
ramshakle castle on the Danube; spring bicycling
with a fraternity brother in Italy; and a lonely
summer in Paris, Morris had indeed grown,
discovered and realized . . . probably more than
his wildest notions had deemed possible.
Morris uses the term “Wandervogel”
(umlaut over the “o”) to describe the sometimes
romantic, always young-at-heart wanderers, like
himself, roving the Old World. His book, working
like a magnet, brings out the Wandervogel in all
of us.
Kim Carlson
‘We begin bombing in five minutes’
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"The Little Black Book
of Atomic War”
by Marc Ian Barasch
Dell Trade Paperback
107 pages
Just when you thought it was
safe to come out of the bomb
shelter, onto the market arrives
yet another atomic war book.
But, unlike other end-of-the
world publications, this book
answers questions to everything
you always wanted to know
about Armageddon but were
afraid to ask (or your govern
ment forgot to tell you).
Compiled from official U.S.
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side track on all that has passed
for official wisdom in the
nuclear age. The book is struc
tured around events, accidents
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penheimer, Albert Einstein,
Harry S. Truman, Alexander
Haig and Ronald Reagan; all of
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Learned To Stop Worrying And
Love The Bomb.”
Along with an off-beat history
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also invented atomic golfballs?
Or that the Greggs family of
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The Sites: A Tourist’s Guide To
Nuclear America,” one can also
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