| Show I LI inE The Salt Lake Tribune him Vonnegut can't hide dismaygu""at workl around Sunday September 2 1990 Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut Novel by Marquez much too obscure The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Knopf 304 pp $1995 physiPolitically discredited cally exhausted General Simon Jose Antonio de la Santisirna Trinidad Bolivar y Palacios decamps with his entourage from Santa Fe de Bogota The year is 1830 and El Libertador (the Liberator) is at the end of one of the most astonishing careers in politico-militar- y history "He had wrested from Spanish domination an empire five times more vast than all of Europe" writes Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez "He had led 20 years of war to keep it free and united and he had governed it with a firm hand until the week before" Now as Bolivar travels up Colombia's Magdalena River headed for exile in the Caribbean or Europe he is beset with rumors of political intrigue and chaos as well as his own memories of triumph and failure Will Bolivar's political enemies allow him to leave the country? Will the Liberator try to form a new army and reconquer the fractious territories that once made up his Napoleonic dream of a continent of a country that would stretch from the Orinoco to the Andes? Will the tuberculosis-wracke- d Bolivar live to see Cartagena de las Indias embarkation point for the world beyond? The General in His Labyrinth is a curious combination of novel 3n 6t I historical and GP Putnam's Sons 304 pp $1995 The year is 2001 and it's worse than you imagined But ironic This is after all Kurt Vonnegut's view of the future He's not optimistic — was he ever? — but he's still occasionally funny in lambasting us for making a mess of everything The story is told by Eugene Debs Hartke born (like Vonnegut) in Indiana an accidental product of West Point (he had intended to attend Michigan) a survivor of Vietnam who ends up teaching physics at Tarkingrton College Tarkingrton is a ha ven for the learning disabled — the rich learning disabled The other kind of learning disabled — poor and there are many — are more likely to wind up in prisons like the one across the lake Athena which is run by the Japanese Hartke is reasonably happy at Tarkington but his career is derailed by the idiotic daughter of a conservative television commentator who charges that Hartke has called into question the leadership of America Given the conditions Hartke describes — massive unemployment severe gas shortages rampant drug use this may not be an inappropriate response But should the children of the rich be exposed to a man who defines capitalism as "whatever 5alt fake Zbe Ztibunt p- I J '1 'I Book t -- '100milmon--01010- Review m with references to the Battle of Germantown "Mad" Anthony Wayne and Francis "the Swamp Fox" Marion have any resonance for readers in Barranquilla and Medellin? Probably not — and that is precisely the basic weakness of Labyrinth with its generals named Santander and Sucre its battles of Ayacucho and Carabobo its references to the Ocana Convention and other momentous events This is certainly important history — history that all Americans should know But by placing it in the connovel that text of a free-forevokes much and explains little Carcia Marquez does his readers a disservice Given this caveat there are still pleasures in Garcia Marquez's latest work The writing is strong and assured with some language so lush it appears to sweat But Garcia Marquez has made some fatal errors along the way Although The General in His Labyrinth starts off strongly it soon becomes entangled in a Mobius strip of incomprehensible political alliances and barely fleshed-ou- t secondary figures Combined with an irregularity in style and mantone as well as a ner of storytelling this makes for a truly frustrating work El Libertador deserves better He is badly served by a novel that will be for far too many North Americans their only peek into a grand and glorious history south of the border If Garcia Marquez thought he was transmuting truth into legend and legend into art he was mistaken — Lewis Beale Knight-Ridde- r Newspapers monograph Though stylishly written and shot through with the author's lush magical realism it is a jumbled pastiche filled with references and subject matter that will seem esoteric to most North American readers Readers who first came to Garcia Marquez through his previous Four Past Midnight King Viking $2295 &we krty two 40 Sony illoitailens el ih solo Bur and ileMat 6 Ivey Spy I Minot Runs and Malmo 7 Messalrends 2000 NOMA and Students N Was On Pim When I lay Donn On N rulontwn O a Natural Mikity el the Senses IWO 301000 based on oomputetivoceued saki ewes horn 2000 bookslates even region O ine YOlt Woe 4- - on) 9olee United Fiction Week Woe Swam d lat Ms kina Cosa Weds Mamas p teseember Pada Oa Ms Woods bull 06 buss 9 del tem Wawa Starasel Poeta & It Ut4 'I 3 3 2 10 a 16 4 4 - t dosage Stant - On i titOW PIO The Women to NW dolma 3 Memorise el keideigtoi Maass from awe Sled t wadi Last Week Mis 7 19 27 5 $ 3 Ackluman Son POW 4 Week Mom at Vildt Settles I The PNIPI S Yea Wel Just DNA 6 31 12 49 13 4 7 12 tI lIe McWilliams Webeler's Ninth New tellealate Oleitcnant MertiamWelmtm 4 laro SOS 4 3 5 37 — in 7 (Capyriate) - t Fasasons istr easy ' Ik4)' iit)::- lir:!:'!1:'':'':i''':'ll'':!i::::N:H :::::1'4' : 1 ::::::- - imp:HLNGTHE offer fashion Ideat Brand name' window towdngsi to4)0 seNice Falue PIldn9 in ::::: store crOt Guannte!t1 !° P!!!!!::!'::::!:!' - :::'::'::::'0E - ''' ':6:iiit'A:' ' " :::: ::4":'!:!: - !!':'!:!!::::!'::ii'q::41':::::: ::::i:::::::::40! :1 ig ' :?? jeNe - - :::!:: :1 !:::: i 4: ?:IN :: :: 1 i - - Kurt Vonnegut still Not Optimistic class set for us They looted your public and corporate treasuries and turned your industries over to nincompoops Then they bad your borrow so heavily from us that we had no choice but to send over an army of occupation in business suits Never before has the ruling class of a country found a way to stick other countries with all the re nt ing he answers the door to a trench-coate- d figure emanating brutal authority who announces himself to be The Library Policeman A boy in the small town of Castle Rock Maine receives precisely what he asked for on his birthday a Polaroid Sun 660 camera It has a defect though The camera doesn't produce the picture expected but rather what appears to be the same picture over and over That picture frames a vicious black dog that if the photos are studied carefully in sequence appears to be moving into an attack position ever-closto the lens The novellas respectively are titled The Langoliers Secret Window Secret Garden The Library Policeman and The Sun Dog making up Stephen King's Four Past Midnight The Langoliers suffers from its brilliant setup in that the plight of a blind girl abandoned midair is so tru er ::I i imsponsibilities their wealth might beyond the ply and still remain richwonder they dreams of avarice! No thought the comatose Ronald Rea gan was a great president!" Similarly a wealthy (irony: from coal and oil!) conservationist chas Uses the conservative commentator for his specious argument that preis dicting the planet's demise nothing new "The difference is that we have the misfortune of knowing what's at really going on which is no fun all And this has given rise to a whole new class of preening narcissistie quacks like yourself who say in the service of rich and shameless pollut- -' ers that the state of the atmosphere and the water and the topsoil on which all life depends is as debatable: as how many angels can dance on the fuzz of a tennis ball" In the end Hocus Pocus is breezy confirmation of your worst fears It does not have the kind of depth or unexpectedness that makes it unforgettable What is inescapable is that Vonnegut cannot hide his dis- may at the world around him It is giving nothing away to reveal liartke's final thought: "Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the uni-- ' verse" — Lhmea Lannon KnightRldder Newspapers ly horrifying that by the time King introduces his bogeymen their threatening aspect is diminished by' comparison Secret Window Secret Garden an inversion of sorts on the plot of his truly scarifying best seller The Dark Half is somewhat disappointing as' well in that the reader can too easily: anticipate the outcome The Library Policemen is trademark King but it is The Sun Dog that will turn your innards to slosh Since this final novella is only the prelude to King's next novel Need' fit! Things in which he promises to do away with the fictional small town he has returned to in several books' his fans can spend the next year in a' swivet of anticipation Given King's proclivities one anticipates that Cos' tle Rock will end with both a whim per and a bang — Sherry' Connelly New York Daily News beauty" Today the last remnants of the 100000 grizzly bears that once roamed the continental United States are holding out in the wilder parts of the northern Rocky Moun- tains and number fewer than 1000 Peacock tells of the animals' behavior — denning mating playing — as they define their social hierarchy Details of their communication and expression of emotion are provocative "Grizzlies communicate with their size posture mouths ears and eyes A grizzly standing on its rear feet swinging its head is only trying to see and smell better" he writes "Bears whoosh when alarmed but are no threat to humans A bear who woofs but does not run away is If the grizzly opens and closes its jaw and slobbers it's time to leave Nii'n:i - - 4114 at --: ! 1' ':'' : 1 S 1 -''- '-- ': 0 7 i3 zi: s:- : A'''' :I -' 1 I vio I ':a 6:::::: :1:::7:: :::": v:0:::b:::d ::::::?::F:0:::::0 ::- i : : :AA: p? :: ' "Once the head is lowered straight on and the ears are flat back you're probably going to get charged" If the eyes fix at the last moment and turn cold you're in trouble "The icy' stare is caused by the eyelids retracting to the corner of the eyes revealing the yellow sclera It happens only at the last second and is the final signal you'll see before flying fur" Despite considerable posturing to save the predators no field of natural science is half as political as grizzly-bear biology as Peacock says: The solution is plain and hard: Grizzlies need untrammeled wilderness "Wilderness is what keeps conventional wildlife management from speaking up for grizzlies There is no paycheck in wilderness nothing to manage Yet human intolerance keeps anything less than true wilderness a deadly battleground where grizzlies always lose and die" — Peter Gorner Chicago Tribune :i ! ::::! ry :'::!::'::::::::::1i::::: : to grizzlies in the first place" he notes "Danger married to great 1 :44--'4- :: :::::: r lb - A k li ' : V: ' : :4i t: :11i: bi tVs - 1 Ki 1 ifT- 0 '''i? -t t) vs i o?ii :f:v-:::::::- t ' m :: :: ii') N: fi: ::::::::::s:: ill! - ' - Li ' i' we 1 1 :: idlt 45 YEAILS LNDUSTB1( i '7111 i:!:'"' 1 kc r q - - ist: Decidrg tr"Pere to get:t - ilitettfliov--'--':::::toic-slio:"-:iu"":ial:"Iii-':::''- ':::: carnivore As he puts it: "I do not always believe government agencies entrusted with protecting endangered species when they tell me the animals are doing just swell back in the deep woods where no one else goes" The kinship he feels to the American brown bear is of the soul His fury over its continued decimation extends to the senseless waste of life animal or human "wacko Peacock is a Nam vet" and reluctant mountain man who hates it when his feet get cold and his stomach won't stop growling But his hacking skills and determination to document the lives of individual grizzlies season after season have made him a legend He also is a wonderful writer a naturalist with a novelist's sensitivity and eye I found myself holding my breath at the close encounters he relates "Danger is what attracted me I I: '"I:Oie siii :: i last-minu- te "No one can ever show me a photo of a mutilated body or dead child again and tell me it is the way of the world I can't live in that world but I do want to live If this is a wound it doesn't want mending" Peacock a former Green Beret environmedic is a battle-scarre- d mental warrior His friend Edward Abbey based his famous George Hayduke character in The Monkey Wrench Gang on Peacock Unarmed and alone Peacock has for years hauled an old movie camera into grizzly country to record the last stand of the last great American Weeks On Int 40 6 NOMMONling ikadsnaw Onial Waldo Search Han 20 5 3 dates by two years the year the man claims he wrote his — but the two must wait until it can be sent from his townhouse to settle the contentions They agree to a moratorium but in that time Rainey's house in the city is torched and two local men who can verify he is being plagued by a stranger are murdered in such a way to suggest it was at his hand A small-tow- n businessman forced to deliver a speech before an influential group makes his first trip to the local library an institution that seems to be a throwback In time Stern notices hushed pa trons and nasty posters warn children of the danger in returning books late The librarian herself seems of another era grandmotherly looks veiling repressed hostility and is particularly insistent that the books he borrow be returned on time The speech goes well very well and in the aftermath the man forgets to return the books Then one morn by Stephen bears L the 110 el tido wed Psis 3 9 Week 2 IwamiWlthoiitSIikGveni Weeks Or 31 Nowrn Miscellaneous Iasi Advice 5 Last Week I 4 f 20th-centur- Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness by Doug Peacock Holt 288 pp 91995 "Vietnam gave us a useful pessimism a pragmatic irreverence I can wear comfortably down any bear trail" writes Doug Peacock in this explosive and unpredictable memoir by a man determined to save grizzly 0 Co Walton and Peen Nealletts Week 13 make good television Obviously Hocus Pocus is not the most subtle of Vonnegut's work undoubtedly due to the increasingly thin line between the satire that has been his forte and the reality of late y America Given that Vonnegut's themes really haven't changed in nearly 30 years — the de struction of the Earth by people be ing high on the list he's clearly at a loss to come up with anything more grotesque than what we've already got cooking So Vonnegut focuses less on humor and more on diatribes Yes the Japanese run most of America and they're not happy about it Warden Hiroshi Matsumoto complains bitterly of the quagmire he finds himself In: "What a clever trap your ruling --- 7-- Memoir from one determined to save the grizzlies I 4 9 2 I : for insurrection What grounds there are for such a charge are vague but it seems an ambitious young prosecutor thinks Hartke will A young girl wakens on an airplane She reaches for the sighted person accompanying her on this trip from Los Angeles to Boston for eye surgery and tries not to panic when she discovers the seat next to her is empty When after a time no flight attendant responds to her call for service she begins to feel her way down the aisle All the seats are empty Her ears tell her the plane is still airborne but all the seats are empty Morton Rainey a successful novelist opens the door of his country house to be met by a charge of plagiarism Confronting him is a stern man in a work shirt convinced a story In a collection published by Rainey has been stolen from him There are astonishing parallels in the stories but Rainey can defend himself with proof — a magazine in which his version was published pre Best Sellers The linings r ' ' 111"7"1 Four novellas make up latest work from King non-line- work the wildly successful and critically acclaimed Love in the Time of Cholera probably will be baffled by this book The General in His Labyrinth is in fact so obscure in so many ways one has to ask whether this book would have been translated Into English if it had been written by anyone else Would an episodic novel by Norman Mailer about our American Revolution filled the people with all our money drunk or sober sane or insane decide to do today"? 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