Subject: Re: This Sandwich is no Bananafish, but its close.
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 05 2001 - 08:46:03 GMT
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:38:05AM +0800, Will Hochman wrote:
> "An Ocean Full of Bowling Balls" is only available at Princeton's
> rare book library as far as I know. It's a mix of Caulfield family
> and Glass family memory in which Kenneth, an "Allie" type of guy
> dies. Vincent is trying to write and Kenneth gives him Seymour like
> advice. I'm working from memory here...and wishing I had time to go
> back to Princeton and read it again, will
I think it was Warren French who said of this story that it contains
the best letter home from camp "from man or boy" -- prefiguring, by
many years, the content of "Hapworth," and eerily echoing it, though
in a much less "sophisticated" tone. It also dwells on issues of
self-destruction and suicide and is, overall, a terribly haunting
story.
--tim
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