The Boston Globe, August 29th, 1993
LIFE WORK By Donald Hall. Beacon Press. 132 pp. $15. Robert Taylor is the retired chief book critic of the Globe. Halfway through the draft of an engrossing meditation on the subject of work, Donald Hall received a diagnosis of metastasized cancer of the liver. Shall I, he pondered grimly, change the title from "Life Work" to "Work and Death"? "If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can." After surgery in which half his liver was removed, Hall could resume his writing. But its direction had changed somewhat. Instead of an op...
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