Posted on 03/04/04
Run over by Irish SUV
The Princes of IrelandBy Edward RutherfurdDoubleday Canada, 776 pages, $37The pleasure of being asked -- and paid -- to review a book has its price. You resist the urge to say something clever or pleasing. You struggle sometimes to gild the lily, because there's the general impulse to do no harm, and you set aside distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow. There's sycophancy, too, the wish to avoid offending potential patrons, publishers or peers.
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