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Playing By Barry J. Glenn Halloween by Ben Greer; Macmlllan; $9.95 With Halloween, Ben Greer has fashi piercing story about family rivalry, lo death. By blending in vivid scenes with to-the-point dialogue, Greer gives the - t iL ~ ?~ U l-~ 4.1 1 A! 1 one ui uiuse i arc lhxjivs uim irununuousi; the eyes glued to the page. The story centers around Blake Pai young man who drops out of school to I the dubious task of returning hom< Southern port town and "freeing" his i whom he believes is about to be put awt insane asylum by his Uncle Cross an Millis. It is on Halloween night that returns and finds his actress mothei finishing up her regular radio show. S him she is expecting a telegram fro York about a part she is supposed to g that night. ONE OF her problems, however, is t A Christmas "Old Coi .-Jk \!//-. Student Top of Ci Wed., Dec. 6 ? 5:3( Call 777-8198 for Christmas Roast Turl Roast Beef with Yor with all the tr [ $3.9! games i is being followed by two ' collectors, hired by Cross tc him. Blake makes it his goj town that night. Danger is ioned a one of the "Birdogs" is a i ve and named Raphael, who has si i short, from monkeys to his girlfri reader 1^e reaj st0ry, however, t y keeps to get acroS8 js one Qf a iif ?i? _ j sntu> n uiiici rivalry ana jealousy. fAkp'.m carried out as a battle, bi p. tn ? continues throughout life. / nother Play their games, 01 ly in an George and Martha of Albee id Aunt Virginia Woolf? ; Blake word games continue *, Jess, each side gains ground and tl he tells is n0 real love in the fight, th< m New Blake, "We do not love our et later bound to them. You cannot you." h?t ?hp Blake, strung out on dri direction to his life is search Q/NA UCI I VJI* 8jk ^ Ben Greer laughlingl BiS I st?PPed writing poeti J We handed them (poen Hf said,'This is biggest pil< W * in the whole history of n wrote a line of poetry. Greer's inability to ' fected the powerful w; second novel, has just b 29-year-old author des< Greer's first novel, SI as a guard for six mo stitute here in Columb Attica in 1972," Greer s because a lot of guar periences, Greer wro reviews. Ben Greer wi "With Slammer, it wa | school here, I used to si Ip get some kind of nation and just live here. Wi having a lot of things. "I GOT a lot of good ?i ? ?I j from the intry" y ? 3) Night / irolina 3 pm - 8:30 pm Reservations. cey with Stuffing kshire Pudding 1 immings \ ) J with li Birdogs" or debit111 one< > bring her back to book, t al to get her out of man w imminent because psychopathic killer SPEiced up everything angels iend. g00*1 w hard to hat Greer is trying he nev 5 that is filled with j^t a \ This rivalry is not way to it as a game that perh is Jess, Cross and above, le is reminded of mothei 's Who's Afraid of beconv go out Into the night as killed 1 len loses it. There dream mgh. As Jess tells becaus families. We are howev< love what chains perienc With jgs and with no Greer ing for a way out. exactly aor '"9 ente " "' I use ar< f Barry J. Glenn y speaks of his writing da *y tlie day I sat in Jim Dick ns) in and Jim got to my ] e of crap that has ever beer ly class.' That was the last 91 write poetry has apparen ay he writes novels. Hall een released and promises ;rved recognition. amrner, was based on his e nths at the Central Corre ia. "I signed up for CCI aid. "It wasn't hard to get ds were quitting." From te Slammer and it recc as on his way up. ,s like a dream. When I w ay, "Gosh, I'd love to be a al attention and then comc ith Slammer, 1 came vex reviews across the countr ? THG S I I EDITOR I ffffecth fear Df the best scenes Greer he young man talks wi ho is rambling on abo AKING OF the old r , Blake says, "I wish as real. . . when I was see one. Just one. Whei er came . . . maybe th Few good keys (from th get in and get out." aps Blake is calling o At times he is treate< Npar the nfnrv'a r>lim es angry at his innocen and find the imagine lis father. At the end, * and decides to stay e "they know me." I jr, having lost a bit of :e on that Halloween n all of its allegorical n weaves is meant to ca r that. rtoinment is clc ? powerful - kir very hea weeks oi ys at USC. but I thi Ley's class. man.' " poems and Greer i handed in would b< day I ever the mom in. Whei tly not af- kind of oween, his Greer to bring its Hallowe and har< xperiences tertains actional In- tertainn right after powerfu a job there fVtACO AV 1 ' * Ull/OC CA" '" | ffl iived good themes i so that v as going to they sh< writer and seen be s back here Greer y close to which h afraid t gripping y. It was a oromin< hi AC I I I BHHHHHI TI I IN/^MT K/1/TN.I iulaliii new CGPTIMG rtPPL fOLLOWl IN CHIEF re June 1, 19 IHTiONS rtWIMBl 3RD ROOR R Line, MONDAY id deat constructs in his HMUHH th an insane old | ^ ^ it angels. jjT| "j j' | | lan's visions of f J ' f ' T 11 t little I prayed so it's all we need, 3 angels). Just a ^^^ pf|g|: it for help from 1 lovingly by his f ; ax, however, she le, his refusal to ry "beast" that ess forsakes her with her family Hake moves on, fe|!?|lft innocence to exight. npu leaning, the tale ptivate and does kssified as tense and tl id of a frightening ente dy business. They were calling me uf nrttf 1?fn oatfinrf fKinrfo lilra aiijr iiiv oajruig uuiigo iiiv^, itvu i 5c nk that very soon you are going to I said that even though his agents tol< : a best seller, it wasn't. "I didn't ge ;y, but if I had I don't know what kin< 1 you see a dream being fulfilled vc jpsetting. s style is the fast action so prevalent en. "I like fast action. My idea is to ? 1 so that you can read it very quick] you. I believe in entertaining the lent is classified as tense and the \ I ? kind of a frightening entertain] INK if you're good you should be al hat matter. You should be able to laj 'hen they go back and read it a seconi >uld be able to discover new avenu ore." said he is halfway through the draf e said will be "the story F. Scott o write." If this new novel is an; ; as Halloween, Ben Greer should int figure on the literary scene. )P?MINC 4 Office K MOW IG4TION9 ton NG POSITION. GARNET & BU 79 - May 31, 1980 in NGDid office, uvveLL Home. Dec. 11. 1978 5 P.M. J he words rtainment.' > for about three t your hopes up Ire a rich young d him Slammer it a movie or all 4 rxt T '^1 Un a ui ouapc A u uc ;ry quickly it is , in Slammer and jo in and hit fast ly, so that it enreader. My en- ; vords I use are ment. ble to lay in the / that in subtlely i and third time, les they haven t t of a new book, Fitzgerald was ywhere near as ; soon become a i