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...LATE GREAT CREATURE by Brock Brower. An oldtime horror-movie actor attempts to refurbish the glories of the gothic and macabre traditions in a time of cheap thrills...
...Transit's demise marks the end of an era. For nearly a century after Abraham Brower began running horse-cars along New York City's Broadway around 1830, privately owned transit systems throughout the U.S. were the only trains in town. Robber barons made fortunes on them, street traction stocks became a mainstay in widows' portfolios, and the Toonerville Trolley was enshrined on the funny pages. Then ridership began to fall off as automobiles flooded the streets, and local governments and independent transit authorities had to rush in and buy out the lines to keep them running...
...David Brower, the wild-haired druid, ecologist and outdoorsman who guided the Sierra Club during its rise to national prominence as a scourge of dam builders and redwood cutters, is the subject. The glitter in such a man's eyes can make it difficult to get a clear look at him, but McPhee had the happy notion of confronting Brower with three of his ideological enemies on threatened terrain-Glacier Peak Wilderness in the state of Washington, Georgia's Cumberland Island and finally, on a raft trip down the Colorado River. In the process Brower and his antagonists...
Against such living death, Brower thrusts Simon Moro, an aging horror-film actor and cinema-cult figure. His old films, Ghoulgantua, Gila Man, etc., are classics. Many have been severely cut, or shelved, for reasons of taste. A Moro film in which the monster gets the girl is as unacceptable to the public as a cartoon cat who catches and lustily devours the mouse...
...this were all Brower had done, The Late Great Creature would be only one of the funniest tours de force of the past few years. But he has done more. With few illusions of ever returning to the great days of Saturday matinee catharsis, he illustrates the salutary nature of terror-its ability to exorcise fears of evil and death. He also toys gracefully with the paradox that fiction is capable of more truth than journalism. The truth about Brock Brower, an experienced freelance journalist, is that he must now be reckoned with as an extraordinarily capable novelist...