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Tfazt'o t1itT11 2'--- MMMMMIM Cowboys Are My t - 9-fi- -- r 3 1r Pam itryntrot 114CA & 'Spyglass Tree' carries of remembrance - 100--- Weakness !Ninrsrot JanuaT7 12 15S2 -- From the time Pam Houston' short stories started appearing in women's and literary magazines in recent years they have attracted attention From a iwoman Nhose history sir months each year includes river runner and hunter's guide— intriguing in itself — here were daring humnrous and insightful stories about relationshipc usually between women and men Now a dozen of her parables rive published for the first time are compiled in her firs book (If Cowtoys An My Ms Houston's name and ploAring reputation in the literary world don't ensure brisk book sales the title eertainly titillates) The narrator and main character of her stories is a strong clever intelligent woman lwho is captivated by men hopelessly caught in their own machismo snares It's as if their ‘vildness their unwillingness to be reined in promises thrills far the women they attract Tamed men are "as dull as fence pists" admits the woman in r as she and her boyfriend launch a rubber raft cin Idaho's Selway River at "Set-wa- y" 1 It t I: t iroo's 1 - i Lll - I 7- 9- 1"- -' s' ''''':--' f' ' !4" 14 ! ) 7t 1 ' '' - '- - t ' iI s 0 r--- -- t )---- ‘ ) - rle- -' JP t ' f '' 0' 75 ''''' 4 ) ir 0it - ' ' - - so i1 i ) -- frE:' t—elt i f4kk 1 '' "J 7 4 4 --' 1 ' we' Geffi Ilse '''- - ': d'N- - ' -- -- li 111 It i os ' ' — t I - te - ': II i‘ 1 - I ' --- -- i'fr °1- i 0 4 00 Set Lime Tribune Park City author Pam Houston chronicles friendships with women and relationships with men high-wat- er ginning with the opening paragraph: 'I have a dog named Jackson who between the ages of four and five became suicidal In a period of less than 12 months Jackson lumped out of the back of a speeding pickup track ate a fourteen-poun- d fertilizhag of er and threw himself between the d laws of a Russian wolfhound Similarly when I turned twenty-eigh- t years old r started to date a man whose favorite song was Mespera Although there is a connertedness to Ms Houston's adventures several with ties to Utah where Ms Houston has lived and played hundred-and-fiftypoun- among other universities takes us through physical mental and emotional geography he knows swell With him we savor the 'look-joitown" on a Gulf Coast bayou from which a smart hard- horse-handlin-g for the past several years the stories are all istonderfully different The finale "In :Ay Next Life- - is all its own one of personal growth and maturity "This is a love story" it starts out as if admitting the previous tales — and relationships — were of unsatisfying lust "Although Abby and I were never lovers" non-organ- ic graduated from Tuskegee Abby is a professional horse trainer who comes into the lives of the narrator and her crazy mare at a clinic Their friendship nourishes but Abby's death to breast cancer cuts it short Rather than being overly melancholy this is a touching story 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landscape terntwa ture sense of place access to potential resources and scent and movement or air" He suggests that the color of the most popular prepared drinks — the light brown of tea coffee beer whisky brandy rum and cocoa — might reflect' "a prehistoile enthusiasm for the liquid in small and precious bodies of water found in the sere tan savannas of our mother Africa" And he says modern man's penchant for travel and tourism "recaptures and reminds us of our ability to master interesting and unusual places to live" the ability of human beings to migate nearly all over the world Sueh bizarre examples which whole sections selectively ignore of the population and their tastes — make Tiger's thesis seem - ma-al- cfPr Lon mother's "Scooter" reflects on what he learned when women were tall and powerful and he was short and dutiful when barbershops siz2led with secrets and truths Women especially will note how little Murray takes us into the thoughts and feelings of female characters They are catalysts on his stage and almost all positive ones at that but we do not see inside them That may be true to life for men of his generation: but we're talking the metaphor of the kindly whore here folks Ah but he can send sashaying through our minds a "Miss Cute' whose "stunning good looks always had been and always would be a source of confusion and anxiety- He deftly brings the period and his characters alive as full complex and yearning beings then kicks the novel into high gear as he builds toward a dramatically satisfying confrontation with the far less idyllic world beyond the college gates — Morris Thompson r News Service c sentimental or unrealistic He exhorts people to take more pleasure in their vrOlk (something difficult for individuals trapped in dead-enmenial iobsl and encourages everone to achieve a "daily celebration" by savoring the little things in life (like pulling the cork trim a bottle of champagnel He seems to feel that modert man perversely denies himself many of the pleasures to which he is entitled and that "an emerging' agenda of human right must expand to include pleasure more ex--plicitly than heretofore" Such statements fail to take into account the more implacable facts of human existence like death illness and poverty and at a time when many people around the world are finding-- it difficult to make ends meet they sound calat the same lous and Pollyanna-istime strained and precarious: in fact much of this volume feels arbitrary in nature Although Tiger goes on at great length about the conflict human beings feel between pleasure and austerity (Dionysus and Apollo) he ignores Freud' vtritings about the id and superego ignores the psycholov of desire The question of the attempts by churches and governments to control people's private pleasures is raised but never explored in a rigorous manner Instead Tiger simply states his own views on one hand he believes that drugs should not he legalized he argues that "expanding the range of legal drugs available to consumers also expand the market and the corps of victims"): on the other hand he makes an impassioned argument for a sexuality unconmoralstrained by In1MOISIMINIP The Pursuit of Pleasure nt working young black man Book on pleasure may be unpleasant for some Pleasure — the subject of the latest book by the anthropologist and gicial critic Lionel Tiger — is one of those huge sprawling topics that can easily elude systematic examination Indeed TM Pursuit of ineasurebounces erratically around the map of human experience like a ball in a pinball machine touching fleetingly on such varied phenomena as sex food drugs art music sports conversation and the enjoyment people get from gardening pets cooking' travel "I have tried to find a link" writes Tiger "between campfires Judy Garland the Place V en- with a dome playing patty-rak- e rentthe of gardenias kiss-baby and a good read rve sought 2 law of pleasure that might unite such an array of phenomena and more besides:4A result of this vague but grandiose: ambition is a messy- hodgepodge of a book a hook filled with hoth insightful observations and hackneyed statements of the obvious interesting' factsprattlingl pravorative questions and unsatisfying- answers It is Tiger's contention that the things people find pleasurable today are rooted in the evolutionary history of the human series and our prehistoric past "the behavior that yielded survival advantaigas in the past was translated into forms Of pleasure from set food warmth comfortable sleep canviviality and so on" Because of social' and eeonomiechanges some of these old pleasures and preferences now result in problems People's taste for animal fat for instance was once a healthy survival mechanism Our hunter-gatherer ancestors who lived some 3 303 years 3q0 worked hard to catch their supper and fat provided a rich source of energy in times of uncertain food supply in rich countrles Nowadays wSiere food- is readily available and many people live sedentary le'es heart- diSPaSe and other cholesteral-related prablems are a cause of prematnre death While' this example of Tiger's thesis ieenis p!alisible enovivIt his eagerness to use biological deterMiniian as an esplanation for human hehavior leads to some other htghly questionable assertions He argues that many contempnracy Americans have choson to live in sulnartis rather than in cities because these "near ranicammunities "are sensually more-likthe savanna at Africa in 'which evnived and in which we devel Everyman moves into a world 'where 'women are worldly and winsome who vras once his the man-chi- ld see — and most impressively — feel and think with him that he puts to glorious use in this dazzling novel of remembrance This is all the more remarkable and (don't tell anyone) painlessly educational because he takes us to a time arid place the famous Tuskegee Institute on a onetime Alabama plantation Between the Wars1 and a milieu (black men coming of age in a wortd of tender hopes and vicious dangers1 that few readers can know firsthand It does not matter what parts are autobiographical although Murray a distinguished literature professor and tan historian who was born in 1916 and - i 4 t '''- ' r I d bright-eye- hero Black Belt Alabama for making us hear smell taste '"' - 1 Y IA "11"- ' It' 4' e0-- - : ' I called to do my young man" As his refined Albert Murray has a great gift I li i determined teachers who want at dusk 1 Bleits their "dear darling pupi1s-- to Imd oat "just what you might be through the moist summer haze 1 xo 1 - Alhowt Wqrrav- - Ps AtIwn RII birds lazing toward home 1 t 4 t 1 t i -- 1 1 1I ) r i I t 1 - Tr'' 11144' r-- - - f ( f t N - nte Spyglass Tree shadow in the mind But the smell of bread ir4 the oven the trumpet in a tune the taste of sweet strawberries in gold sunlight can strip time away Then we are in Grandma's kitchen looking up at that stove:- we are outside her door orchid in hand for the prom: we do see those f I ' - I - MBEINEWIfINIPMO§M Memory often fa dea to a mere I 71"""- "v'71111"44' 1 1 1 - -1 I I river-runne- The reader like the main character's best female friend in "How Ta Talk to a Hunter" can't help Put ask "'Why can't you ever fall in love with a man who will be your friend"' That's not to say MS Houston's stories aren't believable In fact the truthfulness — with harsh edges softened by the characters' ability to see their foolish ways with humor — is sometimes painful "Jackson Is Only One of My Ong" is a personal favorite be - N ft 4 - SUPERE T23 SCA &et Crtri 1 Z4 'N Corter Pmvo 1 IMIEMEIMMEMEMI 4 1 EinnommomMamollimnimom 4 014 |
