Angel Strings & magic

[Robert Bruno]

>From the 3/17/96 New York Times Review of the new novel _Angel Strings_ by 
Gary Eberle (the reviewer, Robert Plunket, feels that magic is usually the 
kiss of death when it comes to fiction)

	"In the field of literature, magic became quite the thing in the 1960's
 and early 70's, which is also the same time smoking pot became quite the 
thing, and I will let you draw your own conclusions. I myself will admit 
to experimenting, and for a while there I even inhaled.  I read Kurt 
Vonnegut and genuinely thought him and his granfalloons profound, I was in 
awe of Thomas Pynchon and it was only after my second novel that I 
finally OD'd and entered rehab (i.e., I discovered Nabokov, who clearly 
felt that a novel shouldn't contain magic, it should *be* magic).  Still, 
a part of me kept wondering: Am I  turning into an old fogy? Has my heart 
lost its capacity to be warmed?"






Rob