really likes women rather in the way a preacher really likes sin.” Kenneth is astonished: Why would he want to remarry at all? Benn will eventually break with his beautiful new wife after noting a resemblance between her shoulders and those of Anthony Perkins, the killer in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.” Later he will seek refuge-from women and love-in the Arctic Circle.Īs Leonard Michaels put it, “More Die of Heartbreak” is “a loquacious, brilliant, entertaining book, mixing long flights of ideas with comic scenes.

Kenneth, the book’s narrator, regards Benn as a genius who requires his special care: It is his self-appointed assignment “to preserve him in his valuable oddity.” (Also, neither of the two has any other real friends.)īut, while Kenneth is away on business, Benn, who’s been widowed for 15 years, marries again. MORE DIE OF HEARTBREAK by Saul Bellow (Dell Publishing: $4.95) Kenneth Trachtenberg, a professor of Russian literature, leaves his native France to join his botanist uncle, Benn Crader, in the United States. But since the legal actions have made no headway in court, Hauser (himself a lawyer) regained the rights to his own book-only now being rereleased by Simon & Schuster. The book (the basis for the movie “Missing”) was subsequently allowed to go out of print. government officials to bring libel suits against the publishers. Such a scorching indictment sparked three U.S. I wouldn’t say that the trigger was pulled by the CIA, but the CIA was mixed up in this.”

Consulate that he had seen Horman alive in the Chilean Defense Ministry the day of his disappearance and that word was that this American “knew too much and that he was supposed to disappear. Hauser quotes Rafael Gonzalez, a former Chilean intelligence officer who testified in 1976 before the U.S.

Based on meticulous research and on transcripts obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Thomas Hauser has pieced together a probable scenario for Horman’s last days, implicating the CIA with collusion in his death.

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