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Mighty Joe Lizard |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Mark Schaffer |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 1,437 Words, 8,788 Characters |
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GOJIRO
Mark Jacobson
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991
368 pp., $22.95
On July 16, 1945, a handful of military brass and some of the best civilian minds on the planet gaped in awe at the mushroom-cloud future. They knew they had opened a new door to a dark room. What they couldn't have known was they had also sown the seeds of a new creation myth, one highly appropriate for the second half of the twentieth century. And, like all myths, it has held magical sway over us for close to fifty years. The Bomb is always with us, the threat of its terrific energy permeating our consciousness like an always smoldering volcano girdling a small village. Now, though, in the waning days of the century, enough time seems to have passed for the myth to have undergone some permutations. From fear and ignorance, through reverence, we have moved to an uneasy acce...
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...s of daunting mad-scientist physics will probably surrender himself to Jacobson's delirious postmodern retelling of the Prometheus myth. Gojiro even comes with a nicely resonant "Goodbye from Joe Young" epilogue, proving that the author knows to whom he's writing. A novel you let yourself be seduced into, Gojiro announces a decidedly quixotic, if still unshaped, new source of literary energy.
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