Show 1 r V 2B Standard-Examin- Sunday er July 12 1981 Best sellers BOOK REVIEWS fd limdiM Fiction “Noble House” James Clavell ‘Goodbye Janette” Harold Robbins 1 2 J “The Glitter Dome” Joseph Wambaugh “Gorky Park” Martin Cruz Smith “God Emperor of Dune” Frank Herbert 3 4 5 6 7 8 “Clowns of God” Morris West “Cardinal Sins” Andrew W Greeley “Free Fall in Crimson” John D MacDonald 9 10 “The Covenant” James A Michener “License Renewed” John Gardner Non-fictio- ' n “The Lord God Made Them All” James Herriot 2 “The Beverly Hills Diet” Judy Mazel 3 “Never-Say-DiBook” Richard Sim1 et mons “Cosmos” Carl Sagan “Miss Piggy’s Guide to Life” Miss Piggy with Henry Beard 6 “The Eagle’s Gift” Carlos Castaneda 7 “The Alpha Strategy” John Pugsley 8 “Survive and Win” Howard J Ruff 9 “Theory Z” William Ouchi 4 5 i 10 “How to Make Love to a Man” Alexand- ra Penney (Courtesy of Time ' magazine) t the weekly news- Satire's 'On Language' lessons enlightening " On Language" by William Safire (Times Books $1295) To apostrophize or not to apostrophize? That is the question And it’s one of the many answered by William Safire as he tells the reader where to put and when to use that little tadpole of a mark called the apostrophe He does so in his book “On Language” a collection of essays written in witty relaxed prose that allows Safire to take an intelligent look at the English language and its usage without being pedantic The essays — most of them quite short — are drawn from Satire’s New York Times column the origin of which is explained in an engaging foreword It is here also that Safire gives his credentials for being a language “authority” a “I’m working writer” he observes “I write because I enjoy expressing myself and waiting forces me to think more coherently than I do when just shooting off my mouth Because I both write to live and live to write I have taken an interest in the implements of my craft” One doesn’t have to be a writer to enjoy this work but one must have a great interest in words — how they came into being how they are arranged and once arranged how punctuated ' Safire covers a vast amount of material in his book but it never show's signs of the labor that must have gone into it He writes well throughout and except for an occasional overuse of puns the writing is both enjoyable and educational throughout — a hard thing to bring off well Especially delightful are his attacks on such contemporary linguistic phenomena as the phrase used by banks offering “free gifts” — “Free? What other kind of gifts are there?” — and the “languaslobs” who strive to make the incorrect correct Adding to the pleasure is the inclusion of letters from readers who defend educate and enlighten Safire on the English language — Phil Thomas (AP) $1495) Richard Slotkin’s first novel “The Crater” fills a big void in the canon of books about the Civil War It is more than just a piece of fiction and a very good one — it is an eye-open- er The setting is just outside Petersburg Va in the summer of 1864 The Union and Confederate armies are like punch-drun- k fighters for the next clash What re- waiting reeling - suits is a dark moment in American history ' Slotkin traces the forces leading to the -- mo-me- -- He re-creat- nt relying heavily on military dispatches the pressure of the Pennsy- es lvania miners digging the longest — at that ‘time — military tunnel under an enemy fortification He captures the tension surroundthe introduction of black combat troops ing into the Union line And he unmasks the utter ineptitude of the North’s military command 'from Burnside to Meade : But while setting the stage for what becomes the crater and the resultant race riot in the Northern lines Slotkin also creates impre-'ssiv- e characters His work with historical characters is very believable and his Lincoln monologues — mourning the death of his son and the guilt for the murder “of all my sons” in the war — are memorable His research into slavery also allows him to produce a good : portrait of the first freed slave characters Slotkin whose first book was a scholarly wrork on the myth of violence on the US ’'frontier blends the idealism and reality of the times in the explosive situation “The Crater” adds more than understanding about one bloody battle of the War Between the States: it enables the reader to comprehend the forces ‘'at work in that period in American history and what led to the war — Scott M Bushnell (AP) ! -- i i j The habits and amusements that rodents pursue aren’t usually the fare from which gripping tales are molded Mice and woodchucks to name a few tend to assert themselves as annoyances in our lives and where they draw their nourishment is often of less interest than that they sully carpets and pit lawns In spite of this intrinsic and often intractable opinion that many people hold there are nevertheless a few brave writers who derive "The Shooting Party" by Isabel Colegate (Viking $1195) It was an error of judgment which resulted in death It took place in the autumn before the outbreak of what used to be known as the Great War” With this politely understated declaration Isabel Colegate draws her readers into the world of “The Shooting Party” It is set in Edwardian England a world in which understatement is the national land guage While Colegate’s eye for detail allows her to recreate this pre-wage of landed gentry in all its finery her book is ” something more than double-edgesad of whimsy nostalgia Full tire quiet irony and Jamesian subtleties of emotion it is a period piece with a contemporary bite At Nettleby Park the country estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby the gentry have gathered for one of English society’s autumn rituals: a weekend shooting party Sir Randolph’s October shoot however is not just another party The Nettleby estate is renowned for the abundance of its game and the quality of its sport Royalty including the king are frequently in attendance On this October weekend the weather is perfect and two of England’s best shots — Lord Hartlip and Lionel Stephens — are among the guests And yet Sir Randolph his country gentleman’s nose to the wind smells discord It isn’t just the outcome of his shooting party that troubles Sir Randolph what is really on his mind is the demise of the English landed gentry As pre-wEngland moves from rural to an urban society as the Liberal party restructures Parliament and assesses new taxes making it more and more difficult for the country gentleman to support his way of life Sir Randolph foresees that “an age even perhaps a civilization is coming to an end” Closer to home he detects a decidedly unsporting rivalry developing between Hartlip and Stephens In Sir Randolph’s eyes the decline of rural England and the display of bad form by sportsmen are anything but unrelated “If you take away the proper functions of an aristocracy what can it do but play games too seriously? It happened at the end of feudalism and it is happening now” There are as many subplots in “The Shooting Party” as there are characters When he is not shooting the dashing Lionel Stephens is obsessed with his love for Olivia Lilbum the sensitive wife of an aristocratic stuffed shirt Lord Hartlip’s wife Aline an acknowledged master at decorous adultery is growing weary of her current lover and is on the lookout for a replacement Cicely Sir Ranniece is carrying on an dolph’s innocent flirtation with a Turkish nobleman livli-hoo- ds in the chronicling of life from beneath the kneecap’s perspective Such writing is often mediocre and myriad articles seem either to senworlds timentalize the or report on animal attributes in a fine-tune- ar four-foote- “Upstairs-Downstairs- ar 19-year-- Isabel Colegate's "The Shooting Party" is a sensitive and richly detailed book focusing on the last of the landed gentry John and Ellen both servants at Nettleby Park are valiantly trying to find time for courting between their domestic responsibilities On other fronts Osbert Sir Randolph’s nephew is concerned lest his pet duck become prey for the sportsmen The head gamekeeper fears that his son will leave Nettleby and not succeed him Tom Hartley a local peasant is plotting to poach some of Sir Randolph’s game Cornelius Cardew a socialist and pacifist plans to use the Nettleby shoot as a protest against cruelty to animals When “the error in judgment which resulted in a death” finally occurs it serves to pull together all of these disparate plot elements As the various characters are jolted from their private concerns and forced to react to a man’s death — a bloody messy death at that — they find themselves vulnerable unprotected by the rules of good form It is as if Colegate has put her cast to a test: suddenly confronted with reality in all its starkness and without the help of convention how does one behave? The answers of course are infinitely variable Some of the group like Lord and Lady Hartlip react with thinly veiled outrage not so much at the fact of a man’s dying but at the impropriety of it all as if they had been forced to receive guests in their pajamas Others like Sir Randolph Lionel — Stephens and Olivia are immediately able to see the situation for what it is and react sensitively If “The Shooting Party” is Colegate’s last hurrah for the country gentleman it is also a celebration of those virtues that make Lionel Stephens different from Lord Hartlip Early in the book Olivia expresses her admiration for Stephens’ ability to remain “open to the possibilities of things” That was not an easy trick in 1913 and it isn’t any easier today — Oft (NEA)1 Bill Singer unfolds troubled chapter in life "Lost in America" by Isaac Bashevis Singer Paintings and drawings by Raphael Soyer (Doubleday $1795) internationally famous for his reminiscences War II Poland and for his remarkable insight into the mystical aspect of Jewish existence A National Book Awards winner and recipient of many other honors the diminutive Singer also is included among that limited number of giants who make up the literary pantheon of Nobel Prizewinners “Lost in America” is yet another volume of his life story phases of which have been recounted in a“A Little Boy in Search of God” “A Young Man in Search of Love” and “Shosha” Singer begins again in that Warsaw he described in those earlier volumes the city where as a young man he tried to rival his brother’s success and achieve his own among the Yiddish writers’ colony of the Polish capital Yet it is a changing city threatened by the emergence of fanatic fascism to the west and godless communism to the east The author adeptly conveys the ambivalence of the Yiddish literary set as they try either to flee the one peril or embrace the other As always the young Singer is emotionally and erotically involved with a number of married and single women who offer only momentary comfort as he struggles with his ambition on one hand and lack of recognition on the other Singer is a master wordsmith creating in g terse prose the departure of his land from the birth his oppressive fear in traveling through Hitler’s Germany the strangeness of a landsman’s introduction to of Yiddish life in "The Crater" by Richard Slotkin (Atheneum 'The Wildlife Stories of Faith McNulty" illustrated by Robin Brickman (Doubleday $1795) Shooting Party' raises last hurrah for landed gentry At 77 Isaac Bashevis Singer has become War book fills void ’ Absorbing wildlife tales told in meaningful terms pre-Wor- ld heart-wrenchin- sea travel the impressive enormity of New York to which his brother had migrated earlier the depression and uncertainties over his future the shortlived happiness of his occasional romantic affairs and the troubling doubts about being able to remain in the United States d particularly dry or fastidious fashion Published regularly in magazines like “The New Yorker” and “Audobon” Faith McNulty is an exception In 12 wildlife stories the reader is quite often literally wrenched into empathy with species as commonplace as the blue jay and as exotic as the Indri a type of primate that dwells in the threatened forest habitats Mixing science folklore and per- sonal experience McNulty reminds us we should not seize uncritical claim to all our world’s and dwindling refascinating sources Extremely rare species of pupfish the sole aquarian descen-dent- s of life in the of Death Valley tiny waterways are threatened with extinction when local ranchers drill wells to support marginal stocks of cattle At the last moment when the requisite water levels are within inches of falling below the critical level a group of biologists intercedes saving this adoptable and fascinating creature for at least the present While pupfish are fortunate enough to inhabit areas in the United States where conservation movements are highly developed world-wid- e estimates are that a once-abunda- nt phenomenal 400000 to 500000 species will be eradicated before the century’s end Preservation of species for the sake of scientific study is an idea widely promoted by environmental groups McNulty doesn’t shirk discussion of the point Recalling her childhood in a piece on woodchucks she writes “any creature I encountered was an individual as distinct as worthy of life as myself and much more marvelous “This is a feeling that may be attacked as sentimental by those who see individual animals as interchangeable digits in a very large number and point out that while woodchucks come and go only the existence of the species need concern us This view has its 1st COME 1st SERVED Franklin Folger THE GIRLS of Madagascar MIDVILLE 6803 So State 566-620- SALT LAKE 321-611- validity I have not spent my adult years putting up tombstones for deceased pets or holding funeral rites over fallen sparrows and yet I have never divorced myself from the idea that individual worth in the animal kingdom is not restricted to human beings” McNulty is rarely an advocate in these tales contenting herself rather with the drama and tragedy that so often characterizes life in the animal kingdom Her strong sense that habitats and their species should be maintained is obvious but this thrusting point comes to the reader in discreetly tailored descriptive articles that seem capable of swaying even the most callous developer The struggle of whooping cranes reduced to a population of about 20 in the early part of the century is vividly recounted in one selection that first appeared as a book in 1966 At nearly 200 pages it seems probable that the story has to be over-writte- n with detailed and laborous digressions into the exact diets of the majestic birds on mig- ration Instead a few pages in McNulty’s writing soars With all the pace of a detective story the author molds and fashions a cast of heros and villians who begin to assume mythic qualities A New Orleans zoo keeper who accidentally acquires an injured crane refuses any breeding experiments unless a mating crane is brought to him Restricted to minute cages the crane named Rosie seems fated to a fruitless destiny to the great chagrin of crane supporters Demonstrating a phenomenal will to endure the harsh conditions several young cranes eventually survive And in a frustrating battle to lay claim on the young wildlife officials even laud the zoo keeper with a prize to soften his obstinate possessiveness First and foremost though it is the cranes themselves that exhibit resourcefulness in the face of tremendous adversity If mankind would only permit a respect for other forms of life the world would be much enriched McNulty argues well-writte- n Read (Standard-Examiner- ) Fire Safety Calif (AP) — Fire HAYWARD safety preparations are being coupled with energy savings at an industrial plant here reports an publication According to Energy User News energy-oriente- d a water tank 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“Suburplied them to ban Wilderness” an engrossing book that reads as smoothly as a good novel but apparently is not The book is narrated by an unnamed man who is recuperating from a bad motorcycle accident and finds his life limited to watching the activities of the various animals who wander into his yard or the empty lot across the way As the narrator puts it “ there was a long period when all I had was what I could see and hear from my windows ” What he sees and hears is the essence of this book He observes the creatures — cats dogs birds and squirrels — and then puts down his observations in tightly woven prose that not only tells what he has seen but attempts and usually succeeds in placing the observation in the larger framework of his entire limited TUXEDOS for that non-fictio- ! : s T ! Science vs nature in Congo "Congo" by Michael Crichton (Knepf $1095) This is a novel of violence and terror unfolding in a remote corner of the former Belgian Xongo It is also a delightful account of Amy a ''coquettish young female gorilla who has acquired an affection for people and a working - vocabulary of 620 words Amy chats incessantly in sign language with her favorite person Peter Elliott a -- young California scientist who is her owner and teacher He regards his charge with a mixture of exasperation and fondness Elliott and Amy join an expedition led by w'Dr Karen Ross a brilliant young scientist who looks like a high fashion model Their -of industrial goal is a fabulous cache a lost beneath diamonds lying city in what is "now Zaire Michael Crichton a graduate of Harvard ’'medical school and a trained researcher tells a story of high adventure pitting modern "science against the forces of nature — Tom - 1 Hoge (AP) universe As the book progresses the various creatures which at first were only creatures develop distinct personalities and thanks to the author’s skill the reader soon finds himself empathizing with them This is an entertaining book and more important (AP) thought-provokin- g — Phil Thomas k ng (O 1V2 1 — Benjamin with great clarity qMa$t Special 99 Occasion BRAND NEW 1981 FREE ARM I A selection of over 45 colors and styles Factory Crates SUGGESTED LIST 729 Full Dress Tails Dinner Jackets Attire Also Boys' Tuxedos Sales And Rentals Semi-Form- al FEATURES OF THE BRAND NEW VIKING SUPER STRETCH STITCH COMPLETE SYSTEM OF UTILITY AND POLYESTER SUPER STRETCH STITCHES AND SEAMS (Back-Forwar- ton0 Quality Fashion Formal Wear Stretch blind hem regular blind hem lock stitch ng zog smocking stitch Jersey overlock triple overlock double edging bridging seam automatic buttonholes overlock triple stretch straight stitch — double fabric joinbutton sew ing seams decorative patterns monograms irg ond still more1 PLUS 90 DAYS NO INTEREST USE YOUR CHARGE CARD ZCMI MasterCharge Visa 393-092- 9 50 E 4600 S Washington Terrace “Terrace Shopping Center FREE PERSONAL INSTRUCTION — AT YOUR CONVENIENCE INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION — YOU LEARN AT YOUR OWN UNHURRIED PACE |