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...cooking that we write novels about. Too many novels and too whiny the reader decides. The genre is one that is not petering out but should. Until then, an amiable and cheerfully unwhiny exception is Thomas McGuane's Nothing but Blue Skies. The author's hero is a fortyish Deadrock, Montana, ^ businessman named Frank Copenhaver, who misplaces his marbles when his wife Gracie packs her bags. In this addlepated condition, he galumphs about drinking too much (or not enough; this isn't clear), getting into fistfights, making rotten investments and then affronting his bankers, eating frozen dinners and, in general...
...bygone Broadway and to the movies of the pre-World War II era that have preserved its style for latter- day audiences. Between the wistful glints of remembered magic unfolds a plot aptly concerning two moribund musical theaters, one on the Great White Way, the other in dusty Deadrock, Nev. In both cases the solution is said to be simple: put on a bouncy, pretty, old-fashioned and campily funny extravaganza, heavy on ostrich feathers and light on social significance, and people will come flocking back...
...McGuane, 42, moved to Livingston, Mont., in 1968, he has not mined the region until now. His Montana has none of the romantic magic of Zane Grey's glowing hills. In Nobody's Angel the sky is harsh, the mountains formidable, the rivers icebound. The town of Deadrock (read Livingston) is the focal point of this austere landscape. Here station wagons are parked where horses once were loosely tied...
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