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Title: Man Who Was Late by Louis Begley ISBN: 0-449-90911-5 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 April, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good writing, no story
Comment: Although this book is about Ben, his story is told by his college friend, Jack. Why? I have no idea. Jack's life is orderly and traditional. Ben, a ..survivor, finds love and rejects it. Jack knows all through reading Ben's journal and because Ben tells him all at their occasional lunches.
I just didn't get this book. I've read three others by Begley. All were excellent, told believable stories, had interesting characters and satisfying conclusions. I finished this one only because I started it.
Also, there is way too much male fantasy [stuff]. How many scenes of anonymous or paid for intercourse must a reader witness to get the point? And I am certainly tired of "beautiful" but problematic women and the repetitive descriptions of ..[them]. Enough already!
Many sharp details do not a novel make. If you want to sample Begley, read "About Schmidt."
Rating: 5
Summary: This is an extraordinary book
Comment: In prose beautiful for its sheer economy as well as its clarity, here is the story of the genteel life adopted by a survivor of the least genteel event of the century. There are hidden costs associated with the comforts of Ben's chosen path, not least of which is his self-image, as a man who is perpetually late to realize the existential significance of major choices, and late to act thereupon; a man who misses chances; a man out of sync with his own life.
This is simply an extraordinary story, told with a courtliness and understatement evocative of William Maxwell and Ford Madox Ford.
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Title: Wartime Lies by Louis Begley ISBN: 0804109907 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Mistler's Exit (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Louis Begley ISBN: 0449004228 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Schmidt Delivered (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Louis Begley ISBN: 0345440838 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: As Max Saw It by Louis Begley ISBN: 0449909476 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: About Schmidt (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Louis Begley ISBN: 0449911160 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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