IN THE BLAZING LIGHTMax WhiteDae//, Sloan & Pearce ($2.75).
In 1940 Author Max White fluttered the critics with a first novel (Tiger Tiger) about the life and lively loves of a fictional U.S. artist. Now he has romanticized the life and livelier loves of a historical tartarFrancisco José Goya y Lucientes, Spain's famed 18th-Century etcher and painter.
Lusty, peasant-born "Paco" Goya killed a string of bulls in the arenas of his native Aragon before he settled down to painting. He also killed a number of men in drunken street brawls, was once found near-dead himself, with a long dagger in his back. For...
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