The Boston Globe, January 17th, 1993
THE MAN WHO WAS LATE By Louis Begley. Knopf. 243 pp. $21. Gail Caldwell is book editor of the Globe. In 1991, a slender, ominously beautiful novel appeared -- almost out of nowhere, it seemed -- called "Wartime Lies." It was Louis Begley's first book, and its haunted chronicle followed a young Jewish boy, Maciek, through the horrors of the Third Reich. That Begley was a silver-haired New York lawyer, his own past similar to Maciek's but with no prior writing credits to his name, was enough of an anomaly. What seemed even more extraordinary (and what brought the novel such critical acclaim) was...
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