The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, December 03, 1984, Page Page 11, Image 11
'Winter's Tali
By Maria Baens
New York City will always be the city of
contrasts. It breathes with the rise and fall of
elegant skyscrapers and decrepit tenements.
It gloats with the great extravagances of the
rich and cowers with the fears and rage of the
poor. It is both beauty and decadence, sense
and nonsense. It is no wonder that a brilliant
writer named Mark Helprin envisions it to be
the perfect city.
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spun tale about the quest for "the perfectly
just city." He contends that the city exists in
New York and awaits the discovery of incredibly
talented and magical characters. The
story leaps into the 21st century and
challenges our imagination and gulliblity.
It begins as a white horse helps a thief
escape an angry mob of thugs called the
Short Tails. Their leader, Pearly Soames,
relentlessly pursues the tale's unlikely hero,
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LAKE IS a veteran thief. His childhood is
spent with an undiscovered tribe of clameaters
living in the obscure Bayonne Marsh
between Brooklyn and Manhattan. Like
Moses, Lake is discovered floating in a
wooden model of the ship City of Justice. At
the age ot iz, LaKe is iorcea to leave mis
Working. Continued from pai
the hardships and skill it takes to wait on ta
Ken, an executive played by Andrew Reilly,
fortunate power he had at work and how <
would be without such power.
"Sometimes all the power and the status set
get the feeling of boys playing at business."
ONE OF the I inest performances of the ev
by David Avin, who played a trucker and
Trucker," about the hardships of the road an
wheel Avin not only put his heart into the sonj:
ded a bit of soul, making it all the more worth
offensive language.
Robin Roberts gave firemen a good show
mance. The reason he does his job is "It sh<
did on this earth. 1 left (police work) because 1
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reclusive trihe anH ventnre into the eitv. He is
eventually taken into a boy's orphanage, pa
where he is trained to become a master bu
mechanic under an engineering wizard, the of
Rev. Mootfowl. he
Mootfowl's biggest dream is to ally with rei
the world's supreme bridge builder, Jackson nr
Mead, but his failure drives him to suicide. Mi
This act embroils Lake, who is accused of
murder. Lake runs away to Pearly Soames's to
headquarters, buried deep in New York's to
water reservoirs.
Soames's plan to invade the Bayonne na
Marsh drives Lake to betray the schemer. w'
To l ake's eood fortune he meets the DC
white horse Athansor, a super beast that can of
cover three city blocks in one gait. H
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THE TALE continues long after Lake di
meets and falls deeply in love with Beverly Ju
Penn, who is dying of an incurable disease.
Their brave and honest romance happens in a
swirl, and in six months, Beverly is dead. Her ba
death leaves Lake vunerable and unable to M
resist the terrible punishment meted out by th
Soames. sa
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subjected to 100 years of torment, which he pe
gallantly bears.
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bles and people. I could feel the hate begin to well
spoke of the un- Alvita Martin gave a fine portr
difficult his life who once had dreams of being a
"woman without a face," and her
;ms empty. You till noon."
Roberta, a hooker, is another fi
Picow. According to Roberta, "1
ening was given very lonely. 1 didn't look like a Pep
sang "Brother what they told me. Don't sell your:
d life behind the highest bidder. All I did was act ou
but he also ad- women."
while despite the
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love people and sings of this with intensity and a t
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bbles out of the bay, much to the surprise 1
a ship's crew. He does not remember who <
is. His strange comeback signals the <
turn of Mootfowl, who now has s
^steriously joined forces with the enigmatic 1
ead. <
Unknown to anyone, Mead has come back <
life several times, each time in an attempt <
build the ultimate bridge.
HIT K\ PI A INS to a celprt oronn of iour
ilists, "My purpose is to tag the world with
der and wider rainbows, until the last is so
:rfect and eternal that it will catch the eye
the One who has abandoned us, and bring
im to right all the broken symmetries and
ake life once again a still and lifeless
earn. . . . My purpose, in a word, is
stice."
The book spills over with an entertaining
irrage of lovable characters. Hardesty
aratta is a man of such immense decency
at he gives up a rich inheritance for a silver
lver. Praeger de Pinto is an educated
earner who runs for mayor by promising
;rfect seasons.
Craig Binky runs The Ghost, a tabloid of
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ayal of a cleaning woman Ralph, a sa
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developed at the University of Iowa. Mrs.
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itrong-willed, intelligent women. Their prowess
ties in with the magic of their un
chartered home, called the Lake of the
Coheeries. Cecil Mature is a chubby, innocent
adolescent who knows only loyalty.
Lake is the embodiment of the city and
what it can be. His physique is not chiselperfect,
and he is not of great intellect. Still,
his innocence and his strength belie a deeper
intelligence.
UNKNOWN TO him, Lake represents the
city's hidden potential and why it so richly
deserves to emerge victorious. What happens
to him and his horse is sad, but not surprising:
The city must burn before it rises again.
Helprin's book is truly enthralling. It
makes a wonderful Christmas gift, propelling
readers into a city they might think they
know but that remains an inexplicable
mystery. The author says anyone who has
been to the Lake of the Coheeries seems to "
have acquired the gift for language. Perhaps
he has been there, for he fills this tale with an
eloquence that is truly beguiling.
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