Word: garlanding
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...eerie echo of Jack Kerouac's rambunctious 1957 novel, On the Road, begins to sound about halfway through The Beach (Riverhead; 371 pages; $23.95), by British writer Alex Garland, 27. The reason it takes half of Garland's moody tale for Kerouac's ghost to tap the reader on the shoulder is that the feel of the two novels could not be more different. On the Road was loony, funny, electric; The Beach is listless, pallid, drifting without object...
Each novel, in its style, captures the style of its generation, and can be read by bemused elders as a shrewd caricature of disaffected post-childhood wanderers desperate to avoid adulthood. Garland's characters are young European and American backpackers who circle like dead leaves in an eddy through the guesthouses of Southeast Asia: this month Lombok, next week or next month or in another life, Loh Liang or Zanskar. Garland writes as they travel, without emotion or opinion or allegiance. His narrator is an affectless young Englishman named Richard, who, in Thailand, comes upon a hand-drawn map that...
...They grab sandals and rucksacks and move on. Richard reports all this a year later from London, where he is tethered to an unspecified job. His tone is one of mild regret, which seems to be the author's view as well, though that's hard to say. If Garland is aware that he has written satire, he gives no sign of it. --By John Skow...
...lawyers are still burrowing through the 1,400 lbs. of records the government gathered during the 18 years it spent hunting for the Unabomber. "This case is the largest, the biggest, the most complex case ever filed in this district," federal defender Quin Denvir told U.S. District Court Judge Garland Burrell Jr. at a pretrial hearing last Friday. But prosecutors made it clear they had found what they were looking for--proof that they had the man responsible for killing three people and injuring 23 others in 16 bombings around the country. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Cleary said that...
...Angeles, where the ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in The Wizard of Oz are worshipped, the denizens feasted on such an ephemeral moment. Attorney Ronald Palmieri, whose clients include Zsa Zsa Gabor, spent close to $5,000 on a set of 12 Wedgwood creamware dinner plates that he thinks will spice up interest in his dinner parties. "I would not buy a creamware dinner service for myself," Palmieri explains, "but it's hard to bring the A list to dinner in a party of 12, and this will certainly draw them. With the Kennedys' dinnerware, they will be there...