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...splendour of her breasts," wrote an early biographer, "made madmen everywhere." He might also have mentioned her energy, ambition, courage, cunning, charm, wit and wardrobe. It took all those things, and plenty of gall besides, to turn Eliza Gilbert into Lola Montez, famous dancer, mistress of Franz Liszt and Alexandre Dumas père, intimate of kings and prime ministers, de facto ruler of Bavaria during Ludwig I's declining years, and belle of the California gold rush...
Chicagoan Carl Haas, manager of a Lola team. "It's a social event, just like Le Mans. It's a bit of a mecca. It's got its own sort of flavor." In fact it sometimes seems that the race is a secondary event, little more than a 100-decibel background for the real thing: drinking, talking and gawking, or in the long stretches of the night, cooking steaks over flickering grills and cracking yet another sixpack...
Attempting to thwart him in that ambition and salvage him in the process is Lola, the bright, pretty, redheaded daughter of a policeman. Romantically attracted by Heck's violence, she desperately tries to erase it with passion...
Hoping to foil his plan, Lola also alerts all the banks in his old neighborhood, and even the police. Heck pulls off the job anyway. His eventual doom and/or salvation is decided by Lola's implacably honest father...
...bringing life to this rather threadbare theme, Renek is spare, painful and hilariously funny. Heck's bank heist, his hair-raising rooftop and back-alley escape, not to mention a rollicking love scene with Lola in a huge beer vat, unroll with a vitality that can only be de scribed as up-to-date Dickensian. For Heck, the future is ambiguous. But Renek's account of his hero's battle with the dehumanizing forces of modern cit ies is a small but notable literary victory...