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OUTERBRIDGE REACH by Robert Stone (Ticknor & Fields; $21.95). Owen Browne, a fortyish American male, plunges into an improbable sailboat race around the globe. The hero's wife and a cynical documentary filmmaker observe Owen's quest with different interests in mind. The conclusion is shattering and not to be forgotten...
Dunster House Music Society--presents flutist Sally Rubin '83, cellist Owen Young, violinist Danielle Maddon, and harpsichordist and pianist Michael Beattie. Free. Dunster House Library...
This is spoken not to her husband but to Ron Strickland, a documentary filmmaker who had been hired by Hylan's company, in a typically dopey corporate move, to record the millionaire at sea, and who has now inherited Owen Browne as a subject instead. Strickland's modest fame rests on his ability to make people look ridiculous onscreen, and he is, by and large, willing to jettison Hylan and try out his technique on the photogenic and seemingly unassailable Brownes. Looking at some still photographs of the couple, Strickland's assistant remarks that Owen and Anne "don't resemble...
Stone's elaborate preparations set up a number of teasing, ominous questions. The most obvious: Can Owen survive, let alone win, the race around the globe? A mechanic familiar with the boat Browne will pilot blurts out to Strickland: "My bet would be this -- either he wins or he dies. You pay me either way. If he quits or runs behind, I pay you." It also remains to be seen whether Browne's idealism can withstand the self-enforced isolation of the seas, and whether his marriage to Anne, mired in comfort and mutual tolerance, will outlast the rough shocks...
...good, honorable people has once again been disappointed. Strickland thinks that his stammer prompts others to show him their worst sides: "His infirmity seemed to encourage people toward boasting and indiscretion. He had noticed it even as a child. It was they who came to him and impaled themselves." Owen Browne has not yet done this, but Strickland is confident -- and afraid -- that he will: "This is a guy," he says of Browne, "who understands art. He just doesn't know what he likes." Paradoxically, Strickland is the only one to tell Browne...