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Show TheSalt Lake BOOKS Sund Tribune Swain Wolfe Is Impossible to Pigeonhole rr By BrandonGriggs ALT LAKE NE And they don't know what to do with Swain Wolfe In The Woman Who Lives in the 1. Wolfe has written a slender tale about agirl who dis. Braid Upon visiting efforts of several booksellers. bookstores a in Missoula. “It’s started to take onalife of its own Wolfe comes to Salt Lake City In cities where the book was sold. teachers read it with their students. Book clubs dissected it Wolfe eventually did five print Swain Wolfe “Youcan't go to any of the ‘Well it belongs here. Nevertheless, The Wednesday, an early stop on a Woman booktour that will take him to 18 Who Lives in the Earth is finding a homeinthehearts and minds of cities in almost a month. He has those who have read it. The book works on several levels: On its surface, it is a timeless story about a young girl's struggle inst the fear and hatred of arby villagers who believe she as caused a drought. Dig a little andit becomes a gentle parable about accepting other people and ting the Earth. a Explore book sug- gests a deep spiritual enlightenment independent in Montana and in tles.”’ said Barbara Theroux. own er of the Fact & Fiction bookstore telephone from his Missoula traditional genres and say, S$ Wolfe's native Colorado. who loved the book and began recom mending it to their customers For the past three years. it’s been one of our best-selling ti arn Sometimes it ends up in the children’s section, sometimes in the women’s section, sometimes in the environmental section and sometimes in the New Agesection.” said the Montana author by home. 151 East in Salt Lake Cit natural world. Part novel. part children’s story and part New Age fable. the book is difficult to deWolfe often is amused to Books, | ——— covers magical ways ofseeing the fine. | Swain Wolfe will discuss Wh and si 1 The Woman Li day at 7 p.m. at Golde what they place on their shelves where it is displayed | @ At Golden Booksellers like to categorize the marketing power of a major publisher (Harper Collins) behind him. anddust-jacket Dlurbs from the likes of acclaimed author Wil liam Kittredge, Wolfe's Missoula neighbor. who calls the book ings of the boc selling some 7.000 copies around the country before major publishers came courting him. Last year, Harper Collins offered Wolfe a two-book deal ote the book fr place within himself, and helper readers respondto Ww er Ma told Wolfe he liked the way Wolfe wrote about the land. Chil d tell him they identify with h. the book's main character Jungian analysts have g the bookto their clients Wolfe admits to no grand ambi tion for the book. it to be useful.” you v resolve “I simply want he said, “Ideally to be able te issues of their lives People are aly looking for z00d stor something th has them transforming t selves as they read it,” said book seller Theroux. explaining the book’s appeal. When her custom both Such recognition has been sweet for Wolfe. 56, although he ers ask what the book is about Theroux finds it hard to desc yu can give It's not someth It's all heady stuff for a first time author who published the book himself three years ago af it. After working as a logger and a miner, Wolfe has spent the past 30 vears of his life making 4 an easy ter publishers rejected it. The Woman Who Lives in the Earth might have vanished if not forthe demic documentaries about cu tural anthropology. Very few people saw them For beautiful and profound. fantastical and utterly real is still learning how to cope with tag line tc You just have the she to say mé ‘ord, There stock k in her fiction ing-adult section political Theroux Travels Easily Between Fact and Fiction virtual shouting distance of the By Nicholas A. Basbanes IAL TO THE TRIE It has been a long and fascinat ing haul over the past 30 yearsfor the noted novelist and travel writ r Paul Theroux water, Thus, there are no excur sions to the fabled museums of Paris, Madrid or Rome; instead he casts an often acerbic (he pre fers the word “ironic’) eye on such places as Albania, Turkey Greece, war-torn Croatia, Syria With 31 books to his credit ince 1966, the 54-vear-old author Egypt and by ferry to the islands of Corsica, Sardinia andSicily 1 throwback to a time when s wrote capablyin a variety rms and when every experi ence and every encounter was st for the literary mill Of Theroux’s 16 novels, the best nown are Mosquito Coast. Pic Palace. Saint Jack is a way of life. he insists that he never gets jaded by the exe rcise even though some critics accuse him of crustiness bordering on grumpiness, a charge not entirely The without foundation The truth is that I never get Family Arsenal, 0-Z cret History, and Millrc While he steadfastly maintair 1s that fiction is by far the most demanding exercise. it is as bored with travel, although I find it really hard to run my life when I am away for long periods,” Ther oux said in a recent interview, i travel writer that he has achieved his greatest celebrity Theroux’s serendipitous jour neys through China. Southeast Asia, Patagonia, Central America Theroux is difficult on a marriage, it is dif Paul Theroux 19th centuries. “It ficult on a ho Among dozens of notedhistorical figures, he quotes iold, it is diffi cult on children. But personally, | find travel very stimulating Samuel Johnson on the subject The grand object of traveling is When he is not exploring new and exotic places, Theroux di- to see the shores of the Mediterra nean.” The ancient pillars of the vides his time between houses on Cape Cod in Massachusetts and title — the Rock of Gibraltar on Oahu in Hawaii. widely acclaimed and duly re warded by achieving abundant le Now, for The Pillars of Hercu the world’s largest inland sea, alone and stays in le \ Putnam’s, $27.50). his sixth major travel book. Theroux journey. and appear often in folk lore and mythology as the gate and Great Britain have provided the material for Riding the Iron Rooster, The Old Patagonian Ex € e Great Railway Bazaar The Happy Isles of Oceania and Kingdom by the Sea, all one side of the narrow passage to and Ceuta, a sturdy promontory in Morocco, on the other — mark the starting and ending points of the has fashioned a 1990s version of way to civilization during the vance, and always staving within “grand tour’ pursued by nds of refined Europeans 16th, 17th, 18th and Memoir of a Boy’ s Life in Poland NGELES TIMES t 4 Remembrance misiaw Lem; translated from Polish by Michael Kan will be swallowed by the Soviet Union — but he sticks as much as possible to the perceptions of the child he was. \ plump. imaginative boy with a penchant for destroying writer Stanislaw student in Lvov Lem was a between the world wars a canceled class meant an enchanted hour of legal idlenes: at Highcastle a nearby ruin onahill that of- fered a splendid view of the city This brief, unconventional memoir is like oneof those in terludes. Disaster is coming — killed by the Germans” is Lem’s laconic epitaph for many 0! schoolmates: Lvov his toys, Lem was fascinated by his doctor father’s tomy books, French pornography organ grinders, halvah stands the workings of machinery and the eternal war betweeneduca tors and kids. Hey e Ty nies nted” cocum imaginary a vast bureaucracy — an effort that prefigured his fic: tion including the stories, Mi Pilot and The Pirx the Futurological Con hotels by living in luxury. I never travel by airplane, and I like the chal lenge taying in a third-rate place, of moving aroundconstant ly at a ver Theroux chose to travel along the coast. planning little in ad “lousy” You can't write about travel slow pace writes in longhand, considers camera ad weight,” and never uses a tape recorder I don't even let people know n. he said. “If someone is looking at me and they see a pen, they might think that I'm going to write down what they say 1 de t them fo think about writ they're talking to me. when I just want them to think about the For all the wonders of technology, Theroux bel there will alwa, « 1 what he does expe e, an a hurry. I travel sh pensively, and 1 where nothing 4 Cre vision ne ) places where nothing is rewardin travel writing, Theroux makes clear that fiction th ier cal With a tr good health if and everyone y our merry way. With novel Jays can go by when nothing hap pens. 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