Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 17, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Books sunday free Winnipeg september 1995 Roth humor cant carry novel sabbaths theatre by Philip Roth Mcclelland 451 me reviewed by Owen Mcnally Hartford courant Mickey the libidinous Antihero of Philip roths Blackh Mored sabbaths is a perverse satirist and satyr waging a disastrous War against Bourgeois propriety and sexual Back in the Placid Sabbath became a celebrated cause among first amendment advocates when he was busted on the streets of new York for presenting what authorities called a lewd puppet As part of his interactive Street theatre Sabbath had employed his Pudgy Fin Gers As Fleshy using his satanic Showbiz this master manipulator in veiled a Young female College student to permit his puppet fingers to touch her bared breast As part of his no socially significant puppet after his 15 minutes of Fame As a persecuted artist and Martyr of free Sabbath retreated to an idyllic Small town briefly note Pandora clock by John Pandora clock starts out with an intriguing premise outbreak meets but novelist aviator John Nance Doest deliver on the Promise of the stores an american professor headed Home from Germany on quantum airlines flight 66 collapses in route and Dies of an apparent heart but the sym especially a High Are sus authorities learn quickly that Helms had an accidental encounter with a researcher infected with a deadly virus being studied at a Germany Laborati the highly contagious imported from a Ger warfare project in the former soviet is thought to be 100 per cent Nance uses the disease to Hook us but largely squanders its suspenseful possibilities by Sid tracking into routine spy thriller Canadian press burning Angel by James Lee Burke the plots keep getting thicker for Dave the thinking mans detective with the Iberia Parish sheriffs office in Southern this latest instalment in the sensational series of crime novels is a twisted and tortured tale that has Dave battling generations of Black White taboos and decades of mob Rule by the Giancano family in an Effort to solve the mystery of Sonny boy the likable mercenary Sonny boy drops into Daves world Long enough to give him a save his life and presumably a victim of the serious violence that is his pro but Cave cant figure out the Mes Sage in Sonny or Why the mob would risk killing a police officer to get hold of the and what might it have to do with a land grab by a prominent citizen that threatens to raze a Backwoods Black Community or the Long simmering affair Between a prominent White lawyer and a Black Madam Burke ties it All together after much Well crafted suspense and sudden shocks in the swampy habitat which is Robicheaux Canadian press citizen Turner by Robert Goldberg and Gerald Jay Goldberg Harcourt Brace years Cable to magnate Ted on one of his patronizing outings with his utterly neglected wife and was driving to the for a dad was in a Good son Teddy and he made a comment about How unusual it was that he haunt had to give any of us kids a whipping in a he said somebody was going to have to get we thought he was but i remember none of us breathed a it was Jennie the mind you who Volun dad stopped the car right put Heron the and whipped the daylights out of but this was before Turner began taking which apparently Mel Lowed out his near manic depressive mood it was also before he became Hope Lessly smitten with future and current wife Jane who once referred to Turner As my citizen Turner is a Clear eyed por trayal of How easily Luck and instinct can substitute for fort Worth Star Telegram in the his Refuge for 30 there our now arthritic ally crippled and portly variation on roths Alexander Portnoy is living miserably Ever when not fornicating with his fre Espir item but ill fated mistress he nurses Many including having been banned from Academia because of numer Ous affairs with Young obsessed with the aging sex ath Lete is haunted by the ghost of his Long now voyeuristic Mother and by child Hood memories of his much loved brother who died As an airman in the second world when one of sabbaths old friends and supporters commits our potbellied priapus returns to the big the Eden from which he had been expelled in his there he confronts his Long dead past and Longs for death with his life collapsing All around he proves he still has his old Genius for Savage mockery and outrageous Sabbath free loads off a now Well heeled old buddy who still reveres him As a Cul Tural icon and precursor of the cultural revolution of the Sabbath hits on his buddy he makes his move after spending an evening defiling the underwear of his buddy teenage daughter is away at Sabbath is pure roths Symbol of Eros and chaos run Hes the dionysian a seminal a nietzschean figure beyond Good and a creative life Hes a Mas ter of artifice and the unreal who toys with but Sabbath really int an or cultural or heroic Lenny Hes just an insufferable boor whose one note character wears Hes All caricature and no and that the novels nag Ging so Why would any Reader spend hours with this chronic complainer and con Man but for his abiding love for his sainted brother Sabbath is utterly without redeeming value As a human what makes your time with Sabbath bearable is roths gift for Black his Sharp edged prose and crisply etched Sce not even roths gift for Wax ing eloquent can make sabbaths waxing and waning Wrath entertaining for 451 St Selling hardcover fiction the Celestine James Redfield Menoch the Anne Rice Bridges of Madison Robert James Waller the horse Nicholas Evans Danielle steel morning noon night Sidney Sheldon a place called Ken Follet the John Grisham be Garath the David Eddings l is for sue Grafton hardcover nonfiction my Point and i do have Ellen Degeneres in Only one Regis Philbin spontaneous Andrew Weil Nuala Beck Bibas italian Biba Caggiano my Pierre Berton the housekeepers Wendy Berry new Gail Sheehy Mars and Venus in the John Gray in the Kitchen with Rosie Daley paperbacks Danielle steel nothing lasts Sidney Sheldon Stephen King the cunning Roberston Davies debt of Tom Clancy Glass Maeyer Bitchy body Patricia Cornwall the Harold Robbins a son of the John Irving Anne Rice Trade paperbacks the Stone Carol Shields the shipping Annie Proulx Anne Rice Forest Marion Zimmer Bradley claiming sleeping Anne Rice Small Carol Shields the English Michael Ondatje on the Jack Kerouac Jane Urquhart life after Douglas Coupland source Coles september 1995 not even roths gift for writing can make 451 pages rambling look at history works in writers hands on the night table actor Len Cariou in Reading a Book called the legend of Bagger its about a mythical Golf game Between Bobby Walter Jimmy Demaret and this local Bagger Vance is a Black its a wonderful Book about a game i its an interesting Warpath by John Keegan key Porter 370 reviewed by Ted Wakefield a Winnipeg writer and editor t t that next for John the popular and unpredictable British w military historian a longtime lecturer at Sandhurst Mili tary Keegan is now the London daily telegraphs defence his from the face of Battle 1976 to the ambitious a history of warfare have enthralled critics and the Public a frequent Keegan gave the first Barbara Frum memorial lecture this Spring in in the self effacing scholar gets subtitled travels of a Mili tary historian in North this engaging work mixes Memoir and history to produce a sweeping tale of soldiers and landscape Keegan shows How the landscape shaped War and conflict in the United states and Canada As it has nowhere Many historians accept this theme As a common but few Chase Down its full Warpath begins with a vivid account of his travels through the United states Canada gets Short shrift As we rarely invited the first visit was in 1957 when the Youthful Keegan toured the battlefields of the civil War a trip that left enduring impressions of America and its in he returned As a celebrated and he has crossed the Atlantic Many times on these later trips he saw less geography and More including journalists in Bill Clinton Keegan then moves to the Distant past in four erudite yet personal essays on North americas major wars and the forts and battlefields that defined their these Are the seven years War Cen Tring on Quebec the War of Independence the fort at the civil War Yorktown again and the seven Days and the Campaign against the great Plains closing with Custers last Keegan then Heads musing on the Wright Brothers and his boyhood fascination with american airmen during the Sec Ond world in the hands of a less fluid and confident such a rambling Book would surely but Keegan rarely loses his whether Hes strolling through old comparing the cultures of military or drawing precise analogies across the his personal which tie the Book both Charm and at times distract the most unexpected is his near fawning Over culture and reflected in the books first and last words i love Keegan has cast new Light on Well trod academic shredded again the image of military history As narrow War made a solid Case for studying Continental rather than National academic life caught neatly another you by Anne Beattie 323 the self absorbed lives of their info their pretensions to Superior their conflicting longings to be Welcome in the society of their Youthful Stu but admired and respected for the Wisdom of their years this is familiar ground for novel Ann Beattie covers this territory like a bloodhound in her novel another her map is the tense mind and cramped heart of mar shall who teaches English at a College in new her journey across this bumpy terrain is meticulous and sensitive a Little too meticulous at like a student cramming for the final Beattie goes into a frantic scram ble As the novel draws to a she has All this work to be All these Dan gling Story lines that have to be tied she pulls it eventual Knight Ridder newspapers who knows More about windows 95 r u 1c Microsoft windows 95 it 1nixw95 step 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