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Farragan's Retreat by Tom McHale5/24/2023 The motif of "Burning" that never really gets its chance at bat is the supposed interdependence between the "straights" and the "deviants." The "straights" are Bingo and Barney Edwards, white liberal guiltists ofīel Air, she a short-haired, athletic-girl type from another era at Radcliffe, with a crush on a fireman she has seen swimming naked he is an orthopedist. Unabashed skinny-dipping firemen, etc.) to that finer point of resolution old timers called a climax. How to draw her serpentine chronicle of somewhat familiar deviate behavior (unfit mother, hooked psychotherapy patients, And, writer to writer, there was a lip-pursing concern in me to know how D.J. Phew.īefore the fire the horizon was dark. Purification of Diane Johnson's Los Angeles a la Sodom and Gomorrah, but simply because the author has found the means to bring her book to a close. Not because our continued and restless suckling on various moral tenets is finally vindicated by the flaming At least this is what happens to an appreciable part of that sprawling metropolis toward the end of "Burning,"Īnd once the Biblical wrath and apocalyptic quality of this great fire is certain, the reader will probably issue a sigh of relief. Iane Johnson apparently has hit upon the solution to all those kooks, cultists, junkies, bogus professionals, displaced Midwesterners whose innocence is awash, police,įiremen, Chicanos, Negroes and social workers who inhabit the easy cliché of Los Angeles: Simply burn the damn place down. SeptemLos Angeles a la Sodom and Gomorrah By TOM McHALE
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