GLENN GOULDA Life and Variations by Otto...

GLENN GOULD

A Life and Variations

by Otto Friedrich (Random House: $22.50; 446 pp.) “For those interested in the story of that remarkable musician, a fantasist bearing a bundle of inhibitions, ‘A Life and Variations’ proves to be a most satisfying account of this enigmatic personality.”--Nicolas Slonimsky

AGONY IN THE GARDEN

A Stranger in Central America

by Edward R. F. Sheehan (Houghton Mifflin: $19.95; 362 pp.) “A brilliant if eccentric book--truly I will never read another headline about Central America without recalling Sheehan’s dreamlike images of beggar and whore, jungle fighter and privileged revolutionary, torture chamber and cathedral.”--Jonathan Kirsch