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...Patrick's College in Karachi before he became an Anglican at age 20. Not that the Papist allegations bothered too many. Times have changed since Henry VIII severed ties with Rome in 1534. The Queen this month overturned five centuries of history by inviting Britain's Catholic leader, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, to preach at Sandringham's parish church on the royal estate, and Prime Minister Tony Blair often accompanies his Catholic wife Cherie to Mass...
Gabriel's Story (Doubleday; 294 pages; $23.95) sometimes seems a little too derivative of William Faulkner as filtered through Cormac McCarthy: "The bull seemed to stand there for no particular purpose that it or the boys could make out, except as a spectacle reminiscent of some pagan culture." Never mind. Durham finds his own voice and rhythm, and the story gallops...
That, stripped of the fancy writing that rendered Cormac McCarthy's novel unreadable to some of us, is the narrative essence of All the Pretty Horses, and it's not a bad one. The lads almost immediately encounter a funny, violent, nutsy kid (Black), and you know right away that his heedlessness is going to cause them a lot of bother. Among other things, his wild--indeed, murderous--ways will eventually mess up Grady's soulful romance with Alejandra (the lovely Cruz), daughter of the rich rancher the boys sign on with...
...ranch he loves in an inheritance battle, rounds up a buddy (Thomas) and heads for Mexico, looking for work, looking for adventure; looking, without quite admitting it, for the sort of experience that will make men in full of them. That, stripped of the fancy writing that rendered Cormac McCarthy's novel unreadable to some of us, is the narrative essence of "All the Pretty Horses," and it's not a bad one. The lads almost immediately encounter a funny, violent, nutsy kid (Black), and you know right away that his heedlessness is going to cause them...
...title says it all, or perhaps too much: a "simple and unadorned melody," as the author explains it, announcing his supposedly humble intentions. There are some echoes here--of Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, even Harper Lee--and Haruf's gentle novel gives off a familiar backwoods, cold-mountain whiff. This time we're in Colorado cattle country, with Ike and Bobby Guthrie, ages nine and 10; their father Tom; two bachelor farmers, Harold and Raymond McPheron; and Victoria Roubideaux, a pregnant teenager with nowhere to go. Once the McPherons agree to care for Victoria, Haruf has roped in his plot...