Blasphemy

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>From Dec. 26 LA Times Book review Section:
http://www.calendarlive.com/calendarlive/books/bookreview/19991226/t00011757
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Forgotten Treasures: A Symposium

Editor's Note: With the turn of the millennial odometer now hard upon us, we
asked a number of writers to share with us their neglected classics of the
century, books they love but which, for one reason or another, have yet to
find the readers they so richly deserve.

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.

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