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...Salt Lake City, after he called police and asked them to remove a dog that had been run over near his home, M. S. McRae was referred to the city dog catcher, was unable to reach him, indignantly called the mayor, was amazed to see Mayor Earl J. Glade arrive in his Cadillac, step out, gingerly lift the animal into his trunk compartment and drive off in the direction of the dog pound...
...novel's start, Harry Bowers, bald and fiftyish, is on top of the world. The world, for him, consists of the Green Glade, a third-rate fleabag hotel on Prospect...
Harry runs the Green Glade like a fiscal acrobat, balancing it on a tightrope of mortgages, bank loans, big and little deals...
Like any king of the bankroll. Harry has his fawning circle of jesters and helpers. Jake of the G. Washington Motel is happy to send an overflow couple to the Green Glade for their illicit love-making as long as he gets his commission. Gil Leary tickles Harry's "sensayumer" with his birdbrain notions of a Green Glade lounge bar and partnership. Harry's brother. "Morris the Flop,'' sponges off Bachelor Harry to support a wife and kids. In his disciplinarian moods, Harry reminds them all that life is "doggy dog," his own squirrel-lipped version...
When Harry stops playing it doggy dog, he and The Prospect Before Us unravel fast. A young Negro girl from a civil rights association maneuvers him into renting her a room in the Green Glade. As if on cue, the Jakes. Gils and Morrises, the banks and realtors all land on Harry: so do fragments of his own hotel tiles, loosened by an unfriendly hand. Stubborn Harry doesn't scare, but all he can salvage from his tiny, crumbling domain is a brief, implausible love affair with the Negro girl. Reverting to me-first principles, he sets fire...