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...Fabian Giraldo's review of "Gate of Heavenly Peace" (Arts, Jan. 17 1996) revealed the author to be an ignoramus...
...utter home truths or her prowess in bed. It just loosens her trigger finger. She lives, just after the turn of the century, not in the Wild West but in the remote hamlet of Witless Bay, Newfoundland (one store, one restaurant, a sawmill and a drydock). Her lover is Fabian Vas, the narrator, who could easily have been the subject of a stultifying art novel. From age 8 he has spent most of his time in inlets and marshes sketching birds, turning his impressions into meticulous paintings that he sells to magazines. A placid life on the surface, but then...
...also has his mother Alaric, another sexy woman who readily speaks her mind. When Fabian's father goes away for a summer to earn the money for his son's unwanted wedding, Alaric moves in with the lighthouse keeper, Botho August. He is one of those romantic figments who can coax ships off shoals, seduce women with his silent charm and his gramophone records, and generally alter the chemistry that keeps an isolated community from violence. "A lighthouse keeper held a sacred trust," writes Norman. "Berserk gales, blanket fogs, fairy squalls, even zigzagging water spouts -- weather that had for centuries...
...strange birds give the narrative its own kind of plumage: teal, merganser, kittiwake, cormorant. When the men of the town are searching for a dinghy lost in the fog, they track each other by calling out names: " 'Richmond Fauvette, this is Oliver Parmelee.' 'Oliver Parmelee, this is Fabian...
Officer Bill Riley of the Boston Police saidyesterday that DePena-Fabian is still being heldat the Nashua Street jail on $35,000 bail. Rileyalso confirmed the outstanding warrants againstDePena-Fabian...