Sunday, December 12, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five -1 & SUNDAY MAGAZINE BOOKS 'Midnight': Mixed bag of Bradbury sci-fi LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT by Ray Bradbury. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 271 pp.. $7.95. j es, of miliar ' smells lawns familiar themes and fa- faces. In them one again the new-mown of Dandelion Wine and Sunlight," and stick it into his new book. It is realism at its most te- dious, unredeemed by opti- ,feels the thin wind of the Mar- mism, ungilded by beauty - ByMIKE NORTON tian Chronicles. In them one stark and unlovely. Set in rural AFTER FIVE YEARS of still hears the high and lovely Mexico, it tells the story of an 1 near - silence, Ray Brad- singing of Bradbury's voice. American tourist's unsuccess- bury had put out another book. But a few, alas, are bad be- ful attempt to leave her sadis- So like spiders we scuttle to yond hope. tic husband - only to realize the bookstores, waving ten-dol- Somehow, they have spoiled, she needs him, after all. It is lar bills in our slippery hands. soured, gone rotten among the an unforgivable tale. ' Roses bloom off in the dark- rats and rafters. They were Two other stories are only ness; cinnamon - scented dust written without heart, and slightly less appalling: the title blows across our ankles. there is no savor in them. Al- piece, which describes a Cali- The new volume is called most conscious of their ugli-, fornia suicide, and "The Bet- Long After Midnight, and it ness, they crawl quickly from ter Part of Wisdom" (another is a collection of 22 stories by one's memorv. in Bradbury's pseudo-Hiber- this master of lyrical fantasy. The old man has been read- nian - hale - fellow - well ' met Some of them are old, some are ing Hemingway again, I'll bet. series). Both stories continue recent magazine selections, the author's very hesitant probe and some are completely new. There is a charming story along the outskirts of the homo- And like so many other things which Bradbury wrote 20 years sexuality question; as such, in this imperfect world of ours, or more ago. In it, an elderly they are not without interest. ,they are neither all bad nor all pedestrian rails against liter- But they are not what we've good.ary naturalism in all its de- go use a very Bradburian pressing disguises. It has stuck to .ect from Ray Brad- with me all. this time; I tookjbuyeihr metaphor, they lie side by side What worm of sick enchant- in this volume, glinting darkly it as my gospel. ment has burrowed into his like bottles of ancient wine. AND SOMETIMES I CAN'T breast? Can he recover, or will Many are tasty, indeed - they help but wondering what it drag him down, book by bring us wisps and whispers the young Bradbury who wrote book, story by story, to a dis- from familiar times and plac- that story would think of this mal death? newfangled old bastard, this The symptoms were slow in Mike Norton is a Daily staff horrible man who could write emerging at first - but after writer. a story called "Interval in his last collection, I Sing the -~ --f . .,1 Body Electric, there was no mistaking it.. Terminal natur- alism. God, and what a fate! To be concrete - and - card- boarded to death, deprived of magic, bereft of song. And what is even more ter- rible to ponder: in his down- ward progress, might he not take us all with him? All those of us who have sustained our- selves against the grimy world by drinking from his sweet well of words? I hope not. But the signs are not at all encouraging. The best stories in Long After Midnight are those written in the early years of his career and not collected until now. Still, one must hope. And some truly fine selections -I "The Wish," for instance, which ran . in Woman's Day magazine last year, or "Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds" - are among the finest and most mature things Bradbury has ever written. The spark is still there, glow- ing bright beneath the ashes, waiting for some favorable wind to rise and blow it into flame. Long After Midnight is, in the balance, a worthwhile col- lection of stories; the good out- number the bad by a respect- able margin. It is only as a portent of shoddy future books by Bradbury that it is omi- nous ECOUPON Partlly DOWN While WOrking For Your GOWN 1 GOOD LUCK ON FINAL EXAMS... NOW EXAMINE THIS: And Ray Bradbury is young to die. -too Order your subscription today. 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