PositiveBookslutWeidermann is a venerable reviewer, a biographer, a deft literary critic, and he chooses to incorporate some fictionalizing techniques in this work in order to endow his protagonists with thoughts extrapolated from their published work, from their journals, from accounts by those who knew them.
Herman Wouk
MixedBookslutSailor and Fiddler is not so much a memoir as a remembrance of things past, a paean to the good fortune that has accompanied his professional life and a nod at the tragedy he prefers not to talk about...The book is merely an old man's musing on a long and prosperous career amid world and life events that the author assumes his reader knows plenty about.
