Show ®!! u&t 0 rspr : i Thu Harold JoumaiCachoSunttay December Capitol 43 S Main Logan (563-392- Cknedforrepairs '" f i 9:10 Patrick Swiyxe is a murder Yictim Wants Beatty is Dick TYncy v who return M a Ghost rated PO-1- 3 7 and rated PG 7 and 9: 10 pm i 90 pjn ' '1 I IH 60 W 100 Nofo Lorn -- J (752-307- ‘Aorth By Dave Wood Mvmeapoaa ul Tribune i S 9-J- O pjn 7 pjn £ - V N Main Logan ): A Bury Levinson film Araiaa rated PO 7 and 9:15 pjn 795 753-311- 2): - - :m of Hope’ is Jon Hassler’s best so far mi star Jon Hassler! new novel “North of Hope” is surely his best " And dial’s saying anmaflifaw-Havintasted die delights of all of Hosier’s earlier novels I eagerly awaited Us big new g book What wu in store for me? Would it be the same gende wine in a new bottle? With a Hastier book dm would be reward enough Or would “North of Hope” represent a departure a new vintage for better or worse? “North of Hope” won’t disappoint connoisseurs of Hassler’s earlier work for he continues to focus Us attention on foe mysterious and wonderful resources of die human spirit a focus that has elicited high critical praise since foe appearance of Us first novel “Stag- 99 generaJ And “North of Hope” is likely to attract a new crowd of readers because it’s heartier more robust than anything Hassler has written previously The novel opens with Ugh school junior Frank Healy watching “Portrait of Jennie”at foe movie house in Linden Falls Mina on a Sunday afternoon in 1949 It ends in the more than 20 years later having left a trail of sexual abuse drugs deafo and despair in its wake Ob foat innocent Sunday in 1949 Frank falls in love wifo die new girl in town Libby Girard is a beautiful young giri who might have replaced foe ethereal Jennifer Jones up on foe screen Frank's love endures but only on a platonic level because of “foe nuns at St Ann’s tary who honed each student’s conscience to a sharp edge and trained him to hold it to the throat of Us impulses” So Libby dates Vernon Jiessen a loutish magnificently characterized by Hairier dong wifo others in a Minnew gallery of small-tow-n nesotans who either warm foe heart or drill foe aouL (Some do a bit of both) Hassler’s dissection of Linden Falls Us depiction of post World War H America are droll and delicious scenes to be savored Libby gets pregnant by die loutish Vernon and marries him Frank becomes a priest ftdfilling chicken-farmer-to-- be what he believes to be die dream of his late mother Fast forward to die 1970s Rank is foe new priest on foe Basswood Indian reservation near linden FUb Guess who’s dreafor there? Libby foe love of Us lire She’s now in her third marriage dus one to foe besotted Tom Pearsall MJX mho is dealing drugs on foe reservation Libby is still lovely if a bit frayed around the edges what wifo a villain for a husband and Vernon’s daughter Vera floundering in die depths of sexual pirnirnity anA mwrt1 i1fn Hassler also peoples this ragged httie community wifo beautifully drawn characters like Caesar Pipe foe Qjibwiy tribal leader who doubles as janitor at n foe mission church and Frank’s old tiBw Ugh school classmate Millie Upward Frank and Libby and Dr Tom drink cocktails together they take dinner together and they share each other’s pwMn-Frank’affection for Libby is rekindled and her family pro- blems Libby’s red- run-dow- ingz toward him : Catastrophe alter catastrophe sucks the Pearsalls into a maelstrom of tragedy ending in a wintry deafo for Tom at die hands of an unscrupulous to be offered to Hassler’s legion of readers accustomed to die marvelously wrought characters and situations in his gender hooks like “Simon's Night” and “A (been Journey” (soon to be s TV movie)? ‘‘North of Hope” where Father Frank gingerly resides fulfills foe New York Times promise in 1981 when “The Love Hunter” appeared: Hassler was said die critic “A writer good enough to restore your faith m fiction” actio- Hassler still is that writer UTAH n-packed s nightly 31° iSa Utah State Theatre Offers BK SCREEN ADVENTURE ROMANCE AND COMEDY ARE BACK! UIGLEY DOWN UNDER ' 753-19- reservation Tom dead Libby and daughter Verna look toward a new life helped dong by their priestly friend Frank discovers thst Us beloved mother’s deathbed wish wasn't thst she wsnied him to be s priest but fost she wanted him to want to be a priest So what will happen to Rank? Will he be s part of Libby’s new life and if so will his part be platonic or fleshly? Or what? 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