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Saint Maybe, Tyler's 12th novel, fits neatly and logically into this progression. It draws on the strengths of its predecessors -- e.g., the riotous domesticity of Morgan's Passing and the painful loss at the heart of The Accidental Tourist -- while investigating more thoroughly than Tyler has ever attempted before the sources and aftereffects of religious faith...
Just as the reader, with more than 700 pages still to march, begins to worry about blisters, the youthful Alessandro takes over the narrative. Here, for a very large chunk of the novel's center, Helprin writes with riotous energy and $ sustained brilliance about boyhood, youth and war. There is a strange, dreamlike adventure in the Alps, when Alessandro at age nine or 10 is caught up in a mountain rescue, then in a preadolescent erotic tangle with an Austrian princess. Later there is a splendid silliness in which he taunts a couple of mounted carabinieri while riding his horse...
Declan Fox's set (Dr. Prentice's office), though crudely made, is rendered irrelevant by the Three's Company-style follies and riotous lines. Miss Barclay, undressed and trying to avoid detection by the Doctor's newly arrived (and distrustful) wife, is eventually caught by the power-hungry Dr. Rance (Sean Williford). This doctor sees Freudian symbolism in everything Miss Barclay does and diagnoses her insane...
...Joan Miro sculpture towers over Barcelona's Parc de l'Escorxador, its riotous colors glinting in the sun. Around it, grandmothers in sneakers, stocky shopkeepers and children in starched frocks join hands. A brass band brays for a slow-motion minuet. Toes out! Toes in! Deliberately, then merrily, 500 people count steps. The sardanas are courtly affairs, far removed from the stomping passion of Spanish flamenco. Under the Franco dictatorship, the dances were banned as subversive evidence of Catalan nationalism. But now, on Sunday afternoons, they are as ubiquitous as barbershop quartets at Iowa county fairs. "They're a sign...
Once the decision to intervene in Azerbaijan was made, Soviet army tanks, so often the Kremlin's tool for political repression, thundered through makeshift barricades and swept easily into the center of riotous Baku. Since then, however, nothing has been easy for the occupying force of some 40,000 from the army, Interior Ministry and KGB. They have found it almost impossible to pacify the people of Azerbaijan, who for two years have been inflamed by a bitter blood feud with neighboring Armenia over control of the mountainous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Last week black flags waved from housetops, sirens...