THE TALE BEARERS by V.S. Pritchett Random House; 223 pages; $10
The 23 essays collected here were all prompted by the same circumstances: a book to review and a deadline. No one can rise to such occasional pieces better than Author V.S. Pritchett. It does not matter whether the subject at hand is a biography or a novel, a collection of short stories or of essays. Pritchett brings to them all the eye of a craftsman (he has written in these forms himself) and the .sympathy of an incurable reader. He is generous,...
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