Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NOBODY'S ANGEL by Thomas McGuane...
...word around the corral is that with his new novel, Nobody's Angel, Thomas McGuane rode into town, swung open the doors of the saloon and single-handed transformed the saddleworn clichés of Western fiction. The irony is that McGuane's fifth novel is his first set in the West. The Sporting Club, his debut, occurs up in Michigan, Hemingway country, while his best novel, Ninety-Two in the Shade, takes place in Key West (again Hemingway turf), where McGuane lived and worked. Although McGuane, 42, moved to Livingston, Mont., in 1968, he has not mined...
...past the author has strained to pack too many ironic asides to the paragraph. In Nobody's Angel he allows some breathing space between wordplay. Unfortunately, a powerful sense of place and character is not sufficient to sustain an entire novel. The hero's sentimental nihilism and unfulfilled longings undo the hard work that has gone before, and the final epiphany-the revelation that there is no revelation-is too dim to illuminate Nobody's Angel. McGuane has not so much made the Old West new as buried many of the romantic myths under a modern veneer...
...hand you have Hitler, on the other Albert Schweitzer. Are people in books like this? People in books ought to be human beings. Let us consider human beings in books Consider the men in Tess of the D'Uhervilles, written by a man Alex D'Urbervile, a rake. Angel Clare, a total wimp Dogs Hardy hate men? Consider Dickens, a man, writing about men. Now those are men I would love to have in my living room Consider...
...back injury discouraged any learn from drafting him. Determined to make it, he gave up a high paying job at Union Carbide and went to a ton of trial campus," a friend says, before he finally got picked up last year by the Pioneer League Idaho Falls Angel affiliate. The first baseman batted. 333 and knocked in 48 runs in his first season and is now with the Midwest League Danville Suns. Bingham started in the opener against the Cointon Giants, going hitless in four at-bats and committing one error...