BOOKS J rvine's one-two punch "Barking Dogs,' by Robert Irvine. St. Martin's Press. 216 pages. $19.95 "The Hosanna Shout," by Robert =,irvine. St. Martin's Press. 234 pages. $19.95. t is not often in a single year that a mystery writer has two of his works released by a major pub- lisher, but Carmel's Robert Irvine can now savor this distinction. Along with the latest installment of his Moroni Traveler series, Irvine in- troduces a new character while taking a look at the world of television news coverage in "Barking Dog." Harkening back to his own days working for a major television net- work news operation, Irvine's latest treation, field producer Kevin Man- waring, exposes many of the foibles of big time news gathering as he covers a forest fire in Idaho. Since a small religious community is destroyed by the fire with the cor- responding loss of 10 to 12 families, the networks are all vying to get the disaster on the airwaves. The real story begins when the competing news < crews move on to other assignments, but Manwaring insists on staying be- hind to dig a little deeper into the fire's cause. Not willing to dismiss the blaze as an act of nature, Manwaring insists on finding out what has really caused -the disaster. In the process not only does the field producer nearly lose his job but he makes his own headlines as someone tries to permanently si- lence the pesky journalist. Moving from the backwoods of Id- aho to Utah, "The Hosanna Shout" marks the return of Moroni Traveler, the popular Salt Lake City private eye whom Irvine has featured in six previ- ous novels. The issue of whether or not Moroni has a son is finally resolved in this highly personalized case. Following clues left by Moroni's deceased ex- girlfriend, Moroni's search for his son r lakes him to a small town which is about to be demolished to accommo- date the expansion of Kennecott Cop- per's huge open pit mine. Traveler finds more than just h.s child as he becomes involved in the bitter dispute over the razing of the town. When a friendly village picnic turns nasty and a number of people are poisoned, Moroni discovers that frontier justice is alive and well in this little, isolated section of the West. With the introduction of his in- triguing new character, plus the con- tinued success of the Traveler series, it looks like Irvine may just have to get used to having two novels pub- -*lished each year. Certainly this is a predicament most of his colleagues would relish. • - Bob Walch Del Rey Oaks NO EE' Coming In February from HarperCollins is a very unusual book, titled "A Void." What's weird about it is that no- where in the novel's nearly 300 pages is the letter e to be found. The book, a mystery that spoofs detective novels, is the work of Georges Perec, the French author of "Ufe: A User's Manual," who died in 1982. Now if it was difficult for Perec to write the book in French, imag* ine what it must have been like for Gilbert Adair, himself a novelist ("The Holy Innocents," "Alice Through the Needle's Eye." et al.) to translate it into English. After completing "A Void," Per- ec wrote another work called "Les Revenentes." It has no vowel but e. The New York Times News Service One woman's spiritual journey "Journey up the River," by Anne Husted Burleigh. Ignatius, $11.95 ot so many years ago, a review of a spiritual-religious book would probably not have ap- peared in a daily newspaper. But with Scott Peck's "road" books setting best-seller records, Thomas Moore's "soul" books not far behind and the Pope's book in the No. 1 position, it's clear: American readers are hungry for spiritual life. Anne Husted Burleigh's "Journey Up the River" is a gem of a small book that fits into the spiritual- religious genre. Written as a spiritual memoir, the book tells about Mrs. Burleigh's spiri- mal and intellectual journey to Cath- olicism. It is also the journey of a girl into womanhood and of a woman to various homes beside the river she loves, the Ohio. The author,- who now live5 in Cin- cinnati, articulates a clear vision of a life lived with faith and purpose - bounded in the physical world by the rivers of the Ohio valley, shored up by a rich, three-generational family life and guided by deep religious con- viction. Her thoughts on love, marriage and three-generational family life are par- ticularly compelling - revealing a combination of thoughtfulness and generosity of spirit. The journey up the river with Anne Husted Burleigh is one worth taking. Even readers who do not share her specific religious view will be heart- ened by her moral vision. Mrs. Burleigh is wife of William R. Burleigh, president of The E. W. Scripps Co., parent company of Scrip- ps Howard newspapers. - Maureen Conlan Scripps Howard News Service ' New fairy tales - with some good and bad "The Good Griselle," by Jane Yolen, Harcourt, Brace & Co., $14.95. "The Girl in the Golden Bower," by Jane Yolen, Little, Brown, $15.95. dapting fairy tales for children is one thing; writing original fairy tales is something else. The prolific Jane Yolen - 150 books for adults and children - is noted for the latter. Of two recent efforts, I prefer "The Good Griselle" to "The Girl in the Golden Bower." Both story and illus- trations (by Jane Dyer) in the second book tend toward sentimentality, a feature absent from real fairy tales. In Griselle, however, a sort of variation on the old "patient Grise- 1da" theme, exudes, in narrative and illustrations (by David Christiana), tenderness, rough humor and mystery. Griselle is a lace maker in Old Paris, a beautiful young woman who marries a "poor, laughing soldier," who soon marches to war and is never seen again. Griselle neither despairs nor remarries, and the stone angels on the cathedral cannot help noticing her devotion, piety and generosity. But the gargoyles counter that Griselle cannot be as good as she seems, and they propose a test to which the angels agree. The gargoyles send Griselle an ugly, unlovable child who, they think, will wear down her patience and generosity. The little boy is indeed ugly and trying in the extreme, but Griselle loves him and tries to raise him properly. The gargoyles, working dil- igently to win their wager with the angels, send to Griselle's door a phantom in the shape of her husband, complete with red plume waving from his hat. Ah, now what will the de- voted wife do? I'll never tell, but I will say that the folk-tale elements of Yolen's narrative and the droll nature of Christiana's pictures perfectly cap- ture the story's themes. "The Girl in the Golden Bower," on the other hand, tries to encompass too many fairy tale motifs: an aban- doned castle hidden by thorn bushes; a woodsman who marries a women he finds wandering in the forest; their golden-haired child called Aurea; a sorceress who insinuates herself into the household; a dying mother who gives Aurea a russet comb. It goes on and on, with the child abandoned in the woods and cared for by animals, a sleeping princess on a couch of pure gold, a great lion-like creature - shades of C. S. Lewis's Narnia - and a whole raft of rescues and transfor- mations. It's a mess. Fairy tales are elegant in their simplicity, and their thematic and metaphorical thrust carries the weight of the inevitable. Such simplicity and weight are missing from this book. • - Fredric Koeppel Scripps Howard News Service A POETRY Returned The ocean strips clean and polishes the wood Summer fire, winter rain, push the roots and branches from the valley hills into the raging sea Returned to us, among the kelp, as tiny chips and bits of their former self Driftwood...on Carmel beach Small things of grace and beauty from the hills returned to the beach As we - did one day emerge from the waters to the beach - Howard Brunn Carmel Just Things There are things about me I adore the Persian rug rocker by the door Eagle's wings spread wild and free such silly things remain part of me That carved wood box given by thee reaching skyward the tall ficus tree rooms that hold most precious memories - the plagues of insane family he- redity Scribbles are handprints for pos- terity a screen that shows of caring humanity each chime of my old schoolhouse clock well turned pages of child story- books The lace the bows are just small parts of me and all the meanings of life as you dispose of such other things remember love is the only golden ring Among the things that are really me is you you you and much more to be. - Margaret Osborne Seaside Bubbles Ephemeral, soap bubbles as blown worlds filled with changing rainbows are seen for seconds, then those transparencies (quicker than a wink) disappear from sight but linger in memory... - Mary Grace Dunn Seaside 12 Alta Vista Magazine, Sunday, January 8 1995 -i- - T - 1 4'.6....'4...'r·'0'4€JI 1 1 , OCR Text: BOOKS J rvine's one-two punch "Barking Dogs,' by Robert Irvine. St. Martin's Press. 216 pages. $19.95 "The Hosanna Shout," by Robert =,irvine. St. Martin's Press. 234 pages. $19.95. t is not often in a single year that a mystery writer has two of his works released by a major pub- lisher, but Carmel's Robert Irvine can now savor this distinction. Along with the latest installment of his Moroni Traveler series, Irvine in- troduces a new character while taking a look at the world of television news coverage in "Barking Dog." Harkening back to his own days working for a major television net- work news operation, Irvine's latest treation, field producer Kevin Man- waring, exposes many of the foibles of big time news gathering as he covers a forest fire in Idaho. Since a small religious community is destroyed by the fire with the cor- responding loss of 10 to 12 families, the networks are all vying to get the disaster on the airwaves. The real story begins when the competing news < crews move on to other assignments, but Manwaring insists on staying be- hind to dig a little deeper into the fire's cause. Not willing to dismiss the blaze as an act of nature, Manwaring insists on finding out what has really caused -the disaster. In the process not only does the field producer nearly lose his job but he makes his own headlines as someone tries to permanently si- lence the pesky journalist. Moving from the backwoods of Id- aho to Utah, "The Hosanna Shout" marks the return of Moroni Traveler, the popular Salt Lake City private eye whom Irvine has featured in six previ- ous novels. The issue of whether or not Moroni has a son is finally resolved in this highly personalized case. Following clues left by Moroni's deceased ex- girlfriend, Moroni's search for his son r lakes him to a small town which is about to be demolished to accommo- date the expansion of Kennecott Cop- per's huge open pit mine. Traveler finds more than just h.s child as he becomes involved in the bitter dispute over the razing of the town. When a friendly village picnic turns nasty and a number of people are poisoned, Moroni discovers that frontier justice is alive and well in this little, isolated section of the West. With the introduction of his in- triguing new character, plus the con- tinued success of the Traveler series, it looks like Irvine may just have to get used to having two novels pub- -*lished each year. Certainly this is a predicament most of his colleagues would relish. • - Bob Walch Del Rey Oaks NO EE' Coming In February from HarperCollins is a very unusual book, titled "A Void." What's weird about it is that no- where in the novel's nearly 300 pages is the letter e to be found. The book, a mystery that spoofs detective novels, is the work of Georges Perec, the French author of "Ufe: A User's Manual," who died in 1982. Now if it was difficult for Perec to write the book in French, imag* ine what it must have been like for Gilbert Adair, himself a novelist ("The Holy Innocents," "Alice Through the Needle's Eye." et al.) to translate it into English. After completing "A Void," Per- ec wrote another work called "Les Revenentes." It has no vowel but e. The New York Times News Service One woman's spiritual journey "Journey up the River," by Anne Husted Burleigh. Ignatius, $11.95 ot so many years ago, a review of a spiritual-religious book would probably not have ap- peared in a daily newspaper. But with Scott Peck's "road" books setting best-seller records, Thomas Moore's "soul" books not far behind and the Pope's book in the No. 1 position, it's clear: American readers are hungry for spiritual life. Anne Husted Burleigh's "Journey Up the River" is a gem of a small book that fits into the spiritual- religious genre. Written as a spiritual memoir, the book tells about Mrs. Burleigh's spiri- mal and intellectual journey to Cath- olicism. It is also the journey of a girl into womanhood and of a woman to various homes beside the river she loves, the Ohio. The author,- who now live5 in Cin- cinnati, articulates a clear vision of a life lived with faith and purpose - bounded in the physical world by the rivers of the Ohio valley, shored up by a rich, three-generational family life and guided by deep religious con- viction. Her thoughts on love, marriage and three-generational family life are par- ticularly compelling - revealing a combination of thoughtfulness and generosity of spirit. The journey up the river with Anne Husted Burleigh is one worth taking. Even readers who do not share her specific religious view will be heart- ened by her moral vision. Mrs. Burleigh is wife of William R. Burleigh, president of The E. W. Scripps Co., parent company of Scrip- ps Howard newspapers. - Maureen Conlan Scripps Howard News Service ' New fairy tales - with some good and bad "The Good Griselle," by Jane Yolen, Harcourt, Brace & Co., $14.95. "The Girl in the Golden Bower," by Jane Yolen, Little, Brown, $15.95. dapting fairy tales for children is one thing; writing original fairy tales is something else. The prolific Jane Yolen - 150 books for adults and children - is noted for the latter. Of two recent efforts, I prefer "The Good Griselle" to "The Girl in the Golden Bower." Both story and illus- trations (by Jane Dyer) in the second book tend toward sentimentality, a feature absent from real fairy tales. In Griselle, however, a sort of variation on the old "patient Grise- 1da" theme, exudes, in narrative and illustrations (by David Christiana), tenderness, rough humor and mystery. Griselle is a lace maker in Old Paris, a beautiful young woman who marries a "poor, laughing soldier," who soon marches to war and is never seen again. Griselle neither despairs nor remarries, and the stone angels on the cathedral cannot help noticing her devotion, piety and generosity. But the gargoyles counter that Griselle cannot be as good as she seems, and they propose a test to which the angels agree. The gargoyles send Griselle an ugly, unlovable child who, they think, will wear down her patience and generosity. The little boy is indeed ugly and trying in the extreme, but Griselle loves him and tries to raise him properly. The gargoyles, working dil- igently to win their wager with the angels, send to Griselle's door a phantom in the shape of her husband, complete with red plume waving from his hat. Ah, now what will the de- voted wife do? I'll never tell, but I will say that the folk-tale elements of Yolen's narrative and the droll nature of Christiana's pictures perfectly cap- ture the story's themes. "The Girl in the Golden Bower," on the other hand, tries to encompass too many fairy tale motifs: an aban- doned castle hidden by thorn bushes; a woodsman who marries a women he finds wandering in the forest; their golden-haired child called Aurea; a sorceress who insinuates herself into the household; a dying mother who gives Aurea a russet comb. It goes on and on, with the child abandoned in the woods and cared for by animals, a sleeping princess on a couch of pure gold, a great lion-like creature - shades of C. S. Lewis's Narnia - and a whole raft of rescues and transfor- mations. It's a mess. Fairy tales are elegant in their simplicity, and their thematic and metaphorical thrust carries the weight of the inevitable. Such simplicity and weight are missing from this book. • - Fredric Koeppel Scripps Howard News Service A POETRY Returned The ocean strips clean and polishes the wood Summer fire, winter rain, push the roots and branches from the valley hills into the raging sea Returned to us, among the kelp, as tiny chips and bits of their former self Driftwood...on Carmel beach Small things of grace and beauty from the hills returned to the beach As we - did one day emerge from the waters to the beach - Howard Brunn Carmel Just Things There are things about me I adore the Persian rug rocker by the door Eagle's wings spread wild and free such silly things remain part of me That carved wood box given by thee reaching skyward the tall ficus tree rooms that hold most precious memories - the plagues of insane family he- redity Scribbles are handprints for pos- terity a screen that shows of caring humanity each chime of my old schoolhouse clock well turned pages of child story- books The lace the bows are just small parts of me and all the meanings of life as you dispose of such other things remember love is the only golden ring Among the things that are really me is you you you and much more to be. - Margaret Osborne Seaside Bubbles Ephemeral, soap bubbles as blown worlds filled with changing rainbows are seen for seconds, then those transparencies (quicker than a wink) disappear from sight but linger in memory... - Mary Grace Dunn Seaside 12 Alta Vista Magazine, Sunday, January 8 1995 -i- - T - 1 4'.6....'4...'r·'0'4€JI 1 1 , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,V through Z File names,Woodward History,WOODWARD_008.pdf,WOODWARD_008.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: WOODWARD_008.PDF, WOODWARD_008.pdf 1 Page 1