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In the title story, a bus carrying passengers newly arrived in Morocco from the airport at Casablanca to Rabat hits an ox. As the driver and a passing farm boy attempt to get the dead animal off the road so the bus can continue, the passengers look around them. Readers see their reactions to the incident, and their impressions of one another. Thus, ingeniously, we are introduced to the major players in these 14 related tales--three Americans who refuse to fall prey to the typical tourist attractions. They give to beggars with their eyes wide open, anxious for blessings they suspect are meaningless. It is through such stubborn sensitivity that their personalities, dreams and failures are revealed. Portraying three lives in crisis, the stories center on introspective moments, and often transform our cliches of tourism. With the collection set in a Moroccan landscape, it's difficult for readers to escape echoes of Paul Bowles, but the focus here is so clearly on an egotistical American perspective at odds with native culture that Ardizzone is able to offer fresh insights. His previous collection, The Evening News, won the Flannery O'Connor Award. Illustrations not seen by PW.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Ardizzone avoids the common trap of setting up the foreign as the other and thereby creating illusory counterparts to our own ways of being. Initially, such a dualistic approach seems certain as he ushers the reader into the dramatically unsatisfactory lives of the three Americans. Divorced and with no heart for academic advancement, Peter sets off for Morocco to arrange an exchange program in the hopes of using it as a stepping stone to an administrative career. Susan comes to Morocco to prove that she can do exactly what others (notably her ex-boyfriend) say she can't. Henry is dying of cancer, and only the fateful stop of his finger on a spinning globe brings him to Morocco. Yet as the three begin to experience the sights and sounds of Morocco, full of contradiction, the initial presentation of Americans seeking solace in the exotic gives way to powerful interactions. In weaving stories of human compassion, Ardizzone has achieved a fiction rich and textured, deserving the highest regard. This collection is recommended for all libraries.
- Cherry W. Li, Dickinson Coll. Lib., Carlisle, Pa.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
In the title story, a bus carrying passengers newly arrived in Morocco from the airport at Casablanca to Rabat hits an ox. As the driver and a passing farm boy attempt to get the dead animal off the road so the bus can continue, the passengers look around them. Readers see their reactions to the incident, and their impressions of one another. Thus, ingeniously, we are introduced to the major players in these 14 related tales--three Americans who refuse to fall prey to the typical tourist attractions. They give to beggars with their eyes wide open, anxious for blessings they suspect are meaningless. It is through such stubborn sensitivity that their personalities, dreams and failures are revealed. Portraying three lives in crisis, the stories center on introspective moments, and often transform our cliches of tourism. With the collection set in a Moroccan landscape, it's difficult for readers to escape echoes of Paul Bowles, but the focus here is so clearly on an egotistical American perspective at odds with native culture that Ardizzone is able to offer fresh insights. His previous collection, The Evening News, won the Flannery O'Connor Award. Illustrations not seen by PW.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Ardizzone avoids the common trap of setting up the foreign as the other and thereby creating illusory counterparts to our own ways of being. Initially, such a dualistic approach seems certain as he ushers the reader into the dramatically unsatisfactory lives of the three Americans. Divorced and with no heart for academic advancement, Peter sets off for Morocco to arrange an exchange program in the hopes of using it as a stepping stone to an administrative career. Susan comes to Morocco to prove that she can do exactly what others (notably her ex-boyfriend) say she can't. Henry is dying of cancer, and only the fateful stop of his finger on a spinning globe brings him to Morocco. Yet as the three begin to experience the sights and sounds of Morocco, full of contradiction, the initial presentation of Americans seeking solace in the exotic gives way to powerful interactions. In weaving stories of human compassion, Ardizzone has achieved a fiction rich and textured, deserving the highest regard. This collection is recommended for all libraries.
- Cherry W. Li, Dickinson Coll. Lib., Carlisle, Pa.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- Tivolem by Victor Rangel-Ribeiro in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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