Blasphemy

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In a message dated 01/04/2000 6:57:39 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
keithmar at jetlink.net writes:

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 By BENJAMIN SCHWARZ
 
     Far too many Americans who admire Evelyn Waugh's novels know only the
 farcical, satiric ones--"Scoop," "Black Mischief," "The Loved One" and,
 inevitably, "Brideshead Revisited." They've never heard of his masterpiece,
 his trilogy "Sword of Honour," whose subject is the public and personal
 reverberations of World War II. With apologies to Messrs. Mailer, Heller and
 even Pynchon, this is the finest work of fiction about that conflict.
  >>
"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for 
dear life on a sinking ship."  -- Edmund Wilson on Evelyn Waugh