Unrequited Loves
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QUESTION: What do Celia, the insurance office clerk, Beatrice Shultz of Woolworth''''s, Diana Prochnik, Bonnie Carpenter and an unnamed screen goddess have in common? ANSWER: They were all women whom a character named Elliott Baker adored and who either spurned or remained unaware of his adoration. These unrequited loves provide author Elliott Baker with an opportunity to describe the heartaches of someone who is presumably himself during the years 1932-1945 and to introduce the reader to the great and humble people who can inform and instruct a life.
Certainly no more unlikely cast could be assembled than one including the famous artist-critic-writer Wyndham Lewis, Precious McVitty, the mother-dominated baseball coach of
Yet beneath the humor and marvelous sense of the absurb that penetrates this book there always exists the author''''s rare ability (in the words of one of his critics) "to understand that the catastrophe which often lies at the heart of comedy can be a form of grace."
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— Newsweek "Baker has a sense of the absurb, a gift of characterization and an ear for dialogue which make his prose crackle with laughter and ache with sadness." — "Elliott Baker knows what he loves with the same fierce clarity that he sheds on what he detests." — The New Leader
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Like the Elliott Baker of UNREQUITED LOVES, writer Elliott Baker was born and grew up in