The Washington Post, July 5th, 1987
WILLIAM GOLDING The Man and his Books A Tribute on his 75th Birthday Edited by John Carey Farrar Straus Giroux. 191 pp. $22.50; paperback, $13 IN AMERICA we usually wait too long to honor our best writers. Think, for instance, of that lovely festschrift for Randall Jarrell, with tributes by half the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Posthumous, of course. They order these matters better in England. During their lifetimes T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, and Philip Larkin all received substantial volumes of homage, and now William Golding has his well-deserved turn. After all, is there any more wi...
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