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We Are the Hollow Men |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Robert Cranny |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1994 |
| Size: 1,874 Words, 10,311 Characters |
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SLOW WALTZ IN CEDAR BEND
Rovert James Waller
New York: Warner Books, 1993
197 pp., $16.95
Robert James Waller's first novel, The Bridges of Madison County, is a best-seller holding a place on the New York Times' list for what seems an eternity. It features a "hero" who is an unattached loner going about the world on photographic assignments, reachable only through his editor's office. He smokes in defiance of the general trend toward healthy abstinence, and he keeps a bottle of booze in the untidy jumble in the cab of his pickup truck. When he is on assignment to photograph the covered bridges of Madison County he stumbles across the wife of a solid, steady man who is off at a 4-H fair with their children. The "hero" promptly sets about repaying the kindness of this woman, given in the form of a dinner in her home, by convincing himself that he will do both himself and her a favor by wooing her and ultimately taking her to bed.
We are given to believe (and apparently a lot of people did) that these two ...
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...illing to become a part of the whole but stays on the fringes looking for the opportunity to take advantage of other people's failings.
The cool one is he who is hypnotized by his own self-image. He is preoccupied by his own small universe and can never see the world beyond himself. Sadly, this is the world of Michael Tillman. And there are Jellie Bradens all too eager to take him up. vbcrlf
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