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\u003Cbr>(Putnam,$12.95)  \u003Cbr>Reviewed by JOAN HERMES,a free-  \u003Cbr>lance writer.  \u003Cbr>ALL the basic ingredients of a good,  \u003Cbr>juicy saga novel are here.A young man  \u003Cbr>rises from poverty to wealth,makes a  \u003Cbr>bad marriage,raises children—one ille-  \u003Cbr>gitimate,another deranged.One part-  \u003Cbr>ner takes to drink and dies,leaving the  \u003Cbr>survivor to face a happier future.Stock  \u003Cbr>figures abound,chock ful of wisdom  \u003Cbr>and sage comments on past,present  \u003Cbr>and future events.Why,then,is this  \u003Cbr>book so difficult to read?  \u003Cbr>From the start we get an inkling of  \u003Cbr>trouble ahead when Jason Garrity,the  \u003Cbr>book's hero,takes seventeen pages to  \u003Cbr>travel from his cottage to the outhouse.  \u003Cbr>It's small comfort that he has a re-  \u003Cbr>ligious experience on the way back  \u003Cbr>from the privy.  \u003Cbr>Jason's mother,Kate,is a widow  \u003Cbr>who takes in laundry to support Jason  \u003Cbr>and his siblings,John and Joan.John  \u003Cbr>is an aspiring priest with a voracious  \u003Cbr>appetite described in such lavish detail  \u003Cbr>that we come to dread the mention of  \u003Cbr>food,knowing what will follow.John  \u003Cbr>habitually trots off to mass,leaving his   | Taylor Caidwell in 1965   | paper route for Jason to deliver.But  \u003Cbr>that's okay,because this way we meet  \u003Cbr>kindly Mr.Maggiotti,who will give  \u003Cbr>Jason several choice acres of land and  \u003Cbr>then die,passing on his shop and the  \u003Cbr>ethnic torch to Saul Weitzman.  \u003Cbr>Jason's friend Lionel helps him  \u003Cbr>deliver John's papers.He does this  \u003Cbr>because he has AN ULTERIOR MO-  \u003Cbr>TIVE.He wants to be there when  \u003Cbr>Jason hits the big time in the hotel  \u003Cbr>business.Lionel marries Jason's sister  \u003Cbr>Joan who is beautiful on the outside,  \u003Cbr>ugly on the inside,and a cripple to  \u003Cbr>boot.John and Joan hate Jason's guts  \u003Cbr>for reasons known only to the author,  \u003Cbr>and spend lots of time sitting around  \u003Cbr>the kitchen table,eyes glowing with  \u003Cbr>contempt for him.  \u003Cbr>This crew is overseen by grandpa  \u003Cbr>Bernard,a puzzling type,who speaks  \u003Cbr>one minute like a peat cutter,and the  \u003Cbr>next like a Rhodes scholar.Like all the  \u003Cbr>characters in this novel,Bernard is  \u003Cbr>over-described and under-developed.  \u003Cbr>Enter Patrick Mulligan,an inn-  \u003Cbr>keeper_in this small Pennsylvania  \u003Cbr>town.Patrick and his doxie Mrs.Lin-  \u003Cbr>don(who could “even appear brutal in  \u003Cbr>a nice way”)join with Jason to invent  \u003Cbr>Grossingers West.While this is going  \u003Cbr>on,Mulligan's daughter Patricia is out  \u003Cbr>in the bushes with Lionel.Jason mar-  \u003Cbr>ries Patricia and is unperturbed when  \u003Cbr>seven months later she gives birth to   |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n\n| I WONDER why publishers take such  \u003Cbr>pains in their publicity and on their  \u003Cbr>book jackets to disguise the fact that  \u003Cbr>an author is an ex-priest.Surely it is an  \u003Cbr>important biographical item and one  \u003Cbr>that many readers would find of inter-  \u003Cbr>est....Next,a magazine devoted to  \u003Cbr>looking into the future,recently spot-  \u003Cbr>lighted \"the 100 most powerful people  \u003Cbr>for the 80's.\"The category,Entertain-  \u003Cbr>ment and the Arts(\"those who make  \u003Cbr>us laugh,who make us reflect,who  \u003Cbr>make us delight in the images they  \u003Cbr>create\")accounts for only 13out of the  \u003Cbr>hundred,and of the 13,only two are  \u003Cbr>writers:Barry Hannah and Raymond  \u003Cbr>Carver.Hannah,age 36,said to be  \u003Cbr>often cited as \"the most promising  \u003Cbr>writer of his generation,\"is the author  \u003Cbr>of Geronimo Rex,Nightwatchman and  \u003Cbr>Ray as well as a collection of short  \u003Cbr>stories.He\"writes with intensity  \u003Cbr>about people at the end of 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