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MAILER PLAYS THE DEVIL
Most of the reviews I have read and heard of THE CASTLE IN THE FOREST have been more about Mailer and his life and his other works than simply about this new novel. One prestigious publication offered what was almost a Master’s Thesis on The Works of Norman Mailer and yet, I believe, ignored or missed one of this book’s most interesting points. So this review focuses on the book and although Mailer is an important author we will comment on him only as we believe he is revealed by his own prose in this one work. We will try our best not to lose the forest in the trees.
That concern out of the way, it is appropriate to say that Mailer has attempted what may well be the impossible. The story focuses on Adolph Hitler’s childhood years as narrated by Adi’s own guardian devil.
TWO OF A KIND
Robert Littell writes some of the most believable thrillers in a field noted for mixing big doses of reality with intrigue. But Littell’s trademark type of story is one that makes you feel as if you have somehow been taken behind the scenes and actually shown what the root causes are of the headlines of the day. This, one of his best novels to date, takes you into the labyrinthian heart of the Israel-Palestine Conflict and the raging Middle East.
Isaac Apfulbaum, a fundamentalist rabbi, is taken hostage by Dr. al-Saath an almost legendary, Palestinian terrorist. This happens in the near future when an unnamed woman is President of the United States (although many of her described mannerisms seem at least reminiscent of you-know-who’s) and our government is trying desperately to broker a working Mid-East accord between Israel and
