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Show me tiiit sg eee) UL Robert E. Lee’s ragged army marching toward Gettysburg —asix-page-long scene with a wonderfulfeeling of time and placethat generates a suspenseall its own. Perkins cut it to halfa sentence. Similarly, family episodes are foreshortenedor omitted, andliterary andhistoricalallusions BOOKS are stripped away. Onthe other hand,there's Back in the 1930s,a literary no denyingthat Wolfe’s writing could be overwrought and sensation was created by Look Homeward, Angel—a vast, disorganized and THOMAS WOLFI rhapsodic novel about the that someof Per- World’s Largest Inventory! Old & New « Buy & Sell Looking Homeward Again 140,000 Patterns * 7 Million pieces Call today for FREE lists of the | pieces available in your ea BRB aE TY#9 coming of age of a young Southerner named Eugene Gant, who bore striking resemblanceto the book’s author, Thomas Wolfe. The accepted story was that Wolfe’s manuscript was so huge and unwieldy that Maxwell Per- Call 7 days a week “A 8 am to 12 midnight ET kins, his editor at Scribners, hadto slash and reshape it. Notso, say Arlyn and Matthew J. Bruccoli, two scholars who’ve goneback to Wolfe’s typescript, restored 60,000 words andpublishedit under its original title, @ Lost: A Story of the Buried Life (University of South Carolina . $29.95). Their conclusion: It’s an even greater book without Perkins’ emendations. You don’t have to read very far to see what the Bruccolis are talking about. The opening pages of O Lost describe the roadside encounter, as a younglad, of Oliver Gant(later to become Eugene’s father and head of the clan) with € 1-800-REPLACE(1-800-737-5223) www.replacements.com 1089 Knox Road, PO Box 26029 Dept. PA, Greensboro, NC 27420 Honor The Memory Of aol Oem Yael) FT kins’ reshaping is understandable, giventhatall editors are born with an innate urge to shorten things up. Look Homeward, Angel still is a powerful bookas originally published. But the Bruccoli version is about 20 percentlongerthanthe Perkins, and muchofthe restored material addsfullnessto the narrative and evenheightensits emotion. The curiousthing is that Look Homeward, Angel —once a must-read novel, especially-for young people— haslost much ofits allure in recent years. Perhaps this newer(or older?) version will again attract attention to this moving, almost mythic story |" of a sensitive, restless and vision-driven young man seekinghis placein life. CHILDREN Learning the Hard Way Katie Couric may be best knownas a TV personality, but she also happens to be the mother of two_|# ORDER TOLL FREE 1-800-905-6170 bute to our country’s proud tradition reedomand glory with this beautiful t finished hardwood FLAG SHOWCASE. during memorial for your loved le ided flag from dirt and dust. HERE’S HOW TO REE To order the Flag Showease, (WQ71) se address, zip code and check Yor $1888 plus ‘$4.95 postage & handling for each to Publishers Choice", Box 4165, Dept. WQ71-PJ Huntington Station, NY 11746 And it comes with a commemorative, brass. Besure to indicate quanty desired and total amount plated plaque suitable for engraving with the and dates of your family’s veteran. enclosed. CA and NY residents add appropriate irae le deep. Ordertoday’ tax. young daughters. In the lattercapacity, she has written a children’s book that’s both pleasant and inspi- rational. Called The Brand New Kid (Doubleday, [ $15.95),it’s all about a young foreign-born secondgrader named Lazlo who has to put up with the taunts of classmates who mock his strange accent and general awkwardness, The story—told in smooth and skillful rhyming prose—ends on an upbeat note, and the illustrations by Marjorie Priceman carry out the mood neatly. PAGE 22 - DECEMBER 3, 2000 « PARADE MAGAZINE |
