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...novel. Pretty Boy Floyd (Simon & Schuster; 444 pages; $24), written with McMurtry's screenwriting partner, Diana Ossana, is a lesser story, loosely tethered to the life and death of the renowned badman Charles Arthur Floyd (1904-34). But like Lonesome Dove, it beguiles the reader with a golden haze of lovely lies...
...floor 300 ft. below the rim of Alaska's active Mount Spurr volcano that included a 3-D survey of the hellish terrain and an analysis of gases issuing from belching vents. Among the significant results: the first maps of the crater's surface, normally hidden by outcroppings and haze. Dante also discovered scant sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide in the noxious air, implying that the volcano, which erupted in 1992, will probably stay quiet for a while...
...never liked his do-gooder schoolmate Jones. "I wanted to hurt that dude the first time I seen him," Reed recalls. "It's just something about people I have when I first see them. I just don't like them." Yet on that night enmity dissolved in a haze of malt liquor, and somebody got an idea. Along with another young man, Jones and Reed wound up at the high school, and the school ended up in flames...
...Dazed and Confused" we do not see the down and out of the 1990's generation, but the pranks and antics of a generation before. It's the last day of school 1976 and the rising high school seniors are out to haze some rising freshman tail...
...drinking. Then Constant too is lying on the floor, in a fetal position. A girl dances around him as fire licks at rum-soaked spots on the floor. The priest and Constant embrace. Constant disappears. Five gunshots ring out. Constant reappears, wearing an orange robe. Time passes in a haze of booze and heat...