Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these five tales, an aphrodisiac turns the world into a monkey house; a vagrant with a mass of knotted material seems to be playing with nothing less than DNA; a palace is built to entice Satan up from hell; hands rebel against the minds that move them; the dead and the living couple in a Texas motel. Each story involves an uncanny mix of eroticism and terror; each is an instance of headlong narrative. Barker, already celebrated in Britain, is about to surface in the U.S. with demonic force. The world may be ready for a combination of playwright, illustrator...
...QUICK AND THE DEAD...
Southern literature tends to be stamped with the obsessions of William Faulkner: doomed and crazy families, legacies of guilt and grudges. The Quick and the Dead, a first novel by North Carolina Academic Z. Vance Wilson, maintains that tradition. Wilson chronicles tribal hatred in an Alabama hill- country clan headed by a self-taught itinerant preacher, Robert Treadwell, who speaks in earthy parables and commits self-mutilation. The book begins and ends with fireball confrontations between the evangelist and his firstborn son, recalled by another son, Luke. The rest, rich in incident, sounds the depths of sexual betrayal and despair...
...DEADLY ROUNDUP AT SEA Pressure mounts to save the dolphin by restricting tuna fishing AND WITHIN MINUTES HALF A DOZEN POWERFUL SPEEDBOATS ARE LOWERED OVER THE SIDE INTO THE BRIGHT WATERS OF THE EASTERN PACIFIC. BURSTING INTO NOISY LIFE, THEY SLICE THROUGH THE CRESTING WAVE TOPS AT 35 KNOTS. DEAD AHEAD OF THEM, A POD OF PORPOISES, OR DOLPHINS, BOLT WITH FRIGHT, BUT THE FLEEING MARINE MAMMALS ARE SOON OVERTAKEN. LIKE COW PONIES ROUNDING UP CATTLE, THE SPEEDBOATS HERD HUNDREDS...
...Cooder recording. The new album opens on a note of embattled optimism with Heaven: "I need something that I can believe in/ And another person just won't do . . . I believe . . . that there's better days ahead/ I believe . . . there's a heaven before I'm dead." Kempner trucks fresh force and vigor to the antiwar genre in Soldier's Home, then brings the war home in Against My Will, whose protagonist is an American hostage. The situation is familiar ("I'm sitting in a foreign country/ In an army barracks hidden in the hills/ I've been here...