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...going heroes of note in American fiction have succeeded in a variety of styles. Philip Roth's Nathan Zuckerman (Zuckerman Unbound) is famous; Updike's Harry Angstrom (Rabbit Is Rich) shuttles prosperously from Toyota dealership to marriage bed; and Thomas Berger's hefty and tenuous moralist, Carlo Reinhart, now 54, has risen above his customary blundering to become an Ohio Quixote tilting at Cuisinarts. Indeed, the redoubtable lummox actually triumphs over fate, women and his amazing girth...
...eleventh novel-the fourth and best Reinhart volume-the author of Neighbors and Little Big Man propels the huge German American into an early and energetic Gray Pantherhood. This is not the Carlo Reinhart of Crazy in Berlin (1958), Reinhart in Love (1962) and Vital Parts (1970). He has been divorced from the vituperous Genevieve-his wife of 22 years-for a decade. His son Blaine, a mulish, asexual hippie ten years ago, is now a three-piece materialist; and blubbery, myopic Daughter Winona has been transformed into an anorectic fashion model. In the past, the world had always been...
...hundred years ago, Carlo Loren-zini found himself light on cash and heavy on gambling debts. Driven to action, the 54-year-old civil servant-turned-writer concocted a tale about a wooden marionette and sold the first chapter to a children's newspaper, reportedly describing the story as "a little nonsense." By the 15th installment, the author was no longer harried by financial troubles and decided to seal his hero's fate by having him hanged by a devious fox and cat. But popular outrage quickly compelled him to create a lovely blue fairy who resurrected...
...homage to their classic, Italians last week celebrated the centennial of Pinocchio in the tiny Tuscan village of Collodi (pop. 1,800), where Author Loren-zini spent much of his childhood and whose name he later took as part of his nom de plume, Carlo Collodi. More than 12,000 visitors besieged the picturesque hillside village to tour "Pinocchio Park," a mini-Disneyland featuring outdoor sculptures and mosaics by Italian artists depicting characters out of the 19th century fable like Geppetto the Carpenter and the laughing serpent. Sated with free ice cream, schoolchildren were toted by donkeys past...
...captivated by his mother's home village on Monte a Pescia. Its rustic beauty was an ideal setting, as Pinocchio once explained to the talking cricket, in which "to chase butterflies, to climb trees and take little birds from their nests." Says Professor Rolando Anzilotti, president of the Carlo Collodi Foundation that promotes the lore of Pinocchio: "The book reflects the flavor of a country town where a child first opens his eyes to the world...