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| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: Philip Lee Williams' Perfect Timing |
| Author: Gail Regier |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/1991 |
| Size: 1,938 Words, 11,329 Characters |
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This novel is a benchmark for several current trends. It represents one type of the new academic novel, which focuses less on the coming of age of students and more on the midlife adjustments of their professors. It represents recent attitudes toward the 1960s, managing to be both critical and sentimental toward that restless era. And it is in the joyful style of the new southern fiction, whose authors are eager to distance themselves from the pessimism of such writers as William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams.
Those are three good reasons to read Philip Lee Williams' Perfect Timing. Another is that it is very funny. For Clayton, a fortyish professor of music, sees his old college girlfriend, Camille Malone, on a TV documentary about the homeless, and drops everything to go rescue h...
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...lay hide-the-sausage" she asks.
But that's the kind of guy Ford Clayton is, and there are lots more like him. I think this book wants me to like Ford in the indulgent way his mother does. I don't, but I'm glad to have the picture Williams draws of him. Ford is a decent, sane guy who finally realizes that Camille's world of perpetual crisis isn't what he needs, exciting though it may be.
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