Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marijuana Smugglers. In October Light, his best novel to date, Gardner has really got his hyphenated act together. As if to contain his ambitions, he has assigned himself at the start a small, local comedy of apparently modest import. An 80-year-old widow, Sally Abbott, has come home to the family farmhouse to live out her days with her widower brother James in the shadow of Prospect Mountain, near Bennington...
...Smugglers of Lost Souls' Rock, as her paperback is titled, becomes Sally's new consolation and Gardner's new form of hyphen: a novel-within-a-novel. Set in boldface type, this parody-saga of marijuana smugglers-the stuff for which lurid covers on airport paperbacks are designed-runs to almost 150 pages and comes dangerously close to upstaging October Light. Among comic-strip characters in Sally's paperback are the smuggling boat skipper Captain Fist, who gets violently seasick even in San Francisco Bay; Jonathan Nit, an inventor who schemes to solve the energy shortage...
...them in pursuit of goals most novelists would not dare attempt. He has had his novel illustrated by not one but two artists. If he could stick an LP by a Vermont fiddler to the jacket and impregnate the binding with the smell of hay and apples-and maybe marijuana-he would do that too. He wants it all. There are writers today who can do one thing as well as Gardner. But with October Light, the question must be asked: Is there another American novelist who can do so many things so well as this master of compounded...
DeCarlo said, however, that only "a small minority" smoked marijuana at delegate parties last night...
Then there are cards from my dog to your dog, cards that hint at homosexuality ("Don we now our gay apparel" no longer means what it did in Christmases past), even a card for my friends who are pot smokers showing a marijuana plant. Feminists may send "winter solstice" cards instead of Christmas cards. Offered by the Page One bookstore in Pasadena, Calif., the cards feature mother earth themes to counter Christianity, which some feminists regard as oppressive to women...