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COOLEY'S `ARCHIVIST' AN INTELLIGENT CULTURAL INCARNATION OF T.S. ELIOT.(Lifestyle)(Review)

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From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
Date: 19980810
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T.S. Eliot was frightened of travel, phone calls, and, above all, having to talk to a woman. And yet he enjoyed women in his edgy fashion, and women found him attractive, fell in love with him, and proposed. Friends expected that if he survived his first wife, poor mad Vivienne, he would wed Emily Hale, who had inspired some of his greatest religious poems. Instead, in 1957, when he was 68, he married his 30-year-old secretary, Valerie Fletcher.

The hero of Martha Cooley's compelling novel ``The Archivist'' is the Eliot-like Matthias Lane, a widower who is guardian of the ...

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