THE GREEN FOOLPatrick Kavanagh Harper ($3).
CALL MY BROTHER BACKMichael McLavertyLongmans, Green ($2).
The bragh days of the Irish Literary Renaissance were as exciting as plum cake full of such plums as Yeats, A. E., Joyce, J. M. Synge. For some time now the cake has been stale and almost plumless. Last week, however, Irish-hungry readers might bite into two fairly fruity bits.
Call My Brother Back, an autobiographical novel, starts off well with an account of a boyhood among the Ulster farmers and fishermen on Rathlin Island, peters out into unimaginative writing, although the last...