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...Cesar, Geronimo hit a Sacrifice fly off reliever Moose sending pinch runner George Foster to third. The count on Hal McRae, pinch hitting for Clay Carroll, went to one and one when Moose fired a wild pitch allowing Foster to race home...
...impression of raffish knowledgeability is what a writer tries to establish when he lists his accomplishments for the inside back flap of his novel's dust jacket. It is thus very good to be able to put down, as Novelist Barry Hannah did on the jacket of Geronimo Rex, "troubleshooter in a turkey-pressing plant." It is not so good to write "Presbyterian minister," and Frederick Buechner, who interrupted his writing career for several years to take a degree at Union Theological Seminary and become a minister, admits that he has thought of publishing his novels under an assumed...
...GERONIMO REX by Barry Hannah. 337 pages. Viking...
Like many novels about growing up absurd, Geronimo Rex is both a romantic retreat and a sharp, satirical attack on convention. It is the story of young Harriman Monroe, who lives in Dream of Pines, La., a little bit of Southern heaven stripped of its timber by a few paper companies. It is a place where old mules and dogs can park themselves in a House Beautiful driveway to die, and where the black principal of a segregated school turns out the greatest high school marching band in the nation. At 22 Harriman is a seasoned eccentric-ex-trumpet prodigy...
Brown proves this point by examining not only the careers of figures of national mythology like Geronimo. Sitting Bull and Cochise, but also those of men like Standing Bear and Donehogawa (Ely Parker). Standing Bear was the plaintiff in an 1879 civil rights litigation which resulted in the United States Government, through the decision of Judge Elmer S. Dundy, recognizing the de jure humanity of the American Indian. Donehogawa, born a chief of the once-powerful Seneca Iroquois, became a self-taught lawyer only to discover that Indians need not apply to the bar of New York, went...