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Swamp Angel, by Anne Isaacs; illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton; $14.99), presents a rousing rarity: a brand-new backwoods legend, written mostly for girls, that has the feel of real frontier storytelling. Angelica Longrider, born in Tennessee in 1815 and known far and wide as Swamp Angel, was "scarcely taller than her mother" at birth, and -- though her father gave her a shiny new ax to play with in her cradle -- "was a full two years old before she built her first log cabin." Her epic mud wrestle with the giant bear Thundering Tarnation has the rowdy, mile-wide...
...relax from keeping up with the ruthless intensity of her opinions. Her voice is echoed, shrilly, wanly, in dozens of movie reviewers whose style she influenced and whose careers she strenuously promoted. But for the real thing, there is a mammoth new book, For Keeps (Dutton; 1,312 pages; $34.95), which collects about a fifth of her movie writing. So far as we know, that's all she wrote -- no fiction, no lit crit, no backward glance at an early life that included jobs as a seamstress, cook and children's companion (Auntie Mame from Mensa!). "I'm frequently asked...
With The End of the Hunt (Dutton; 627 pages; $24.95), a novel that sifts the moral and political wreckage left by the Irish civil war of 1921, Thomas Flanagan brings to a rueful close his vast, intelligent, unfailingly civilized trilogy about Ireland's struggle to rid itself of English domination. Here as in the earlier novels, The Year of the French and The Tenants of Time, there is a powerful sense that the future is watching over one's shoulder. Unlike the characters, the reader knows that all the heroism and treachery, all the endless talk and rising...
Astin's supporting cast performs decently, but unfortunately the script limits their roles as well. Ned Beatty portrays Rudy's blue-collar Irish father convincingly, but he appears only early in the movie. Charles S. Dutton, as the groundskeeper of the Notre Dame stadium, replaces Beatty in the role of Rudy's mentor. Dutton, who tends to over-act (as anyone who has seen him as "Roc" on TV knows), somewhat overdoes his part of the wise old man who has to give sage and timely advice in order to motivate young Rudy...
...Dutton Books, 307pp...