Word: forested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Postmarked Paris, the packages addressed to Moonwives Jan Armstrong, Joan Aldrin and Pat Collins contained curious-looking presents: three black wrought-iron keys. They are quite some keys, though-they open the front doors of three luxurious villas in a pine forest overlooking the Mediterranean. The ladies' admirer is Mario Marello, a real estate developer who is building a community of $40,000 vacation homes near Fréjus on the French Riviera. While he followed the moon shot, says Marello, "I couldn't keep my mind off the wives and children and the terrible anxiety they were...
...been a classic inquiry through all literature, but it is particularly relevant for America today. The common fury in the hearts of the disenchanted can extend beyond Black Power and campus rebellion into suburbia, and farther. In David Shetzline's second novel, that rage explodes during a forest fire in the timber country of Oregon. Before the fire is smothered by a snowstorm, it has scorched the lives of several middle-aged American males...
...rebellion begins at Heckletooth Mountain's Logging Unit Three, when Lee Replogle, a 46-year-old Forest Service worker, sees a big bull elk about to gore his pet hound and shoots him in a reflex of instant anger. Elk are out of season, and Replogle has been a dutiful Government employee. But he sees himself as "a punk" and a sucker who has never got anything from a society filled with takers. Near by, the first flames of the fire flicker. Suddenly, he feels a compulsion to prove his manhood by defying the law and packing...
Author Shetzline, a onetime Forest Service lookout himself, has the gift of using sometimes lyrical, sometimes colloquial, language to describe the woods, the men, and the fire that consumes both: "Each time the cull deck shifted, tons of fuel would resettle and a hundred dozen sparks would be sucked upwards like the spores of some livid fungus." As his dispirited warriors of the soul wander the fire-blasted countryside, a suspenseful psychological drama is created that subtly expresses the themes of innocence, guilt and the corruption of the individual by society...
...FOREST GRIEVES Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Western Illinois University Macomb