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Shottty after arriving on the islands, Bernard's father IS struck down by a car as he crosses a busy street The driver is a woman married to a professor; she and Bernard develop a relationship deems the traumatic beginning. The flrght from London to Honolulu via LA. is paraded In juicy detail by Lodger As the travel agents at the airport herding their charges through the boarding process. we are introduced to a motley collection of holidayers who keep reappean'ng. One IS a scholar who has a grant from the travel agents' assocralion to study the rites of sun-seekers. "The rhesus of my book IS that sightseeing is a subsitute for religious ritual The sightseeing tour " secular pilgrimage Accumulation of grace by visiting the shrines of high culture, Souvenirs as relics Guide. books as devotional aids. You get the picture." MG: ‘16 . wuttttctfty Wmnmmsmv. 0670953 9, 1001 Paradise News Is something of a departure for Lodge The setting IS Hawaii where Bernard Walsh has taken his elderty lather to reunite with his Sister who Is dymg of cancer Walsh IS a lapsed priest who teaches post-modern theology His aunt left Eng- land to marry an American soldier who eventually divorced her She has tried too long 'neath the Pacmc sun and wants to see her brother before the melanoma takes her Bernard's sister has been thee father's caretaker smoe their mother died and she resents Bernartrs freedom. (She also was for a retarded son.) Dawd Lodge is British, academic and funny. If that strikes you as oxymoronic, you haven‘t read him But you’re in for a treat. His newest book, Paradise News. us just out in hardcover. But his premous books (Ginger. You're Benny; The British Museum is Falling Down; Changing Places; How Far Can You Go? Snail Worid; and Nice Work). are all available in Penguin paperbacks. Most of them poke fun at university professors competing tot tenure, bed-hopping at academic conferences. bogging down in the semiotics of their own lives, and so on. He's also written Out of the Shoiter about his boyhood during the London Blitz. Bernard's aunt needs" to anfront her brother Mud in rtr09er'u0tt nth the t!mverstty atWaterloo SN“ "l m iititvl ttiw. WWO Lodgings in Paradise PRESENTS E W? Tickets at the CM of Waterloo Box thtiee, Prices: Adults $8.00 Kids/Students/Seniors $6.25 KIDS' SERIES OPENER! Tapestry Music Theatre & Prologue to the Performing Arts Two other titles just out in paperback: A Morning for Flamingos. a Dave Roticheaux mystery by James Lee Burke (Avon $5.95). author of Black Cherry Buss. A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Acker~ man Motage $15.00). a sensuous romp through the worlds our brains ignore that our body tries to inform us of. Easy to read in short interludes, Paradise News, David Lodge, Seeker & Warburg, $29.00, _ _ - Chuck Erion is a Waterbo bookseller and freev lance writer. It all this sounds more heavy than funny, I assure you the book reads with more chuckles than I've recorded‘ Lodge has an eye for the ridiculous in the everyday. like the kangaroo-like pouches that the sightseersoerrytheirwatletsin. Buttheptotand characters make up more than a cardboard parody. He just doesn't take academics as seriously as they Saturday, October ad 1:00 p.m. A New Musical Kimmie by _Dayid Passmore bmthertvNswaalaterkiludiothewarand "sainted" by his parents. Bernard‘s sister tties out to make sure their father is okay. She is ebb to confront her own past and realize what a doormat she's become for her husband. Bernard is putting his aunt's finances in order and discovers an original stock certificate in IBM now worth a few hundred thousand. 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