NP Unity by Michael Arditti

[Paul Mackin]

On Jun 19, 2006, at 9:07 PM, jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> Reviewed by Ed Wright, SMH 19 June 2006.
>
> "Books concerned with Nazism and the Holocaust have been in vogue  
> in English language publishing recently. Locally, Auschwitz  
> survivor Jacob G. Rosenberg's excellent East of Time recently won  
> the NSW Premier's Literary Award for non-fiction. Yet writers with  
> no direct connection to these horrors are beginning to choose them  
> for subject matter and it may be that as the atrocities of World  
> War II ebb from living memory, they are losing their power of  
> taboo. Michael Arditti's Unity is one such book. [...]"

It's one I want to read. Love the Mitfords.

A different sort of Holocaust "taboo" was faced by Pynchon 33 years  
ago and is apparently in effect even today. .

Under no circumstances fail to cross all the t's and dot all the i's.

By the way, I do not really despise Robert nor he me.  That was merely a
gambit to  get Dave Monroe's attention. Failed miserably of course.

P.




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> Continues:
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> http://www.smh.com.au/news/book-reviews/unity/ 
> 2006/06/19/1150569266815.html
>
> best
>