Richard Brautigan, author of Trout Fishing in
America,, has come ud with another winner The
Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western.
Just as the tormer was not really about trout fishing,
The Hawkline Monster Is not really a western. And it is
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The action takes place in the summer of 1902 in the
"Dead Hills" of eastern Oregon. The twin Hawkline
, sisters, who live in a huge house, 'isolated. in desolate
surroundings, are having'problams with a monster they
think lives in the ice caves beneath their house.
These same ice caves make the house considerably
colder than its environment in the middle of summer,
snow is piled up around the house and the sisters keep
warm only by using tons ."of coal in their three f ireplaces,
. The monster in the ice caves was accidentally created
by the sisters' father, who was engaged in a series of
experiments intended to solve "the ultimate problem
facing mankind"-in the, basement laboratory,: just
above the ice caves. Things got out of hand and the
resulting monster apparently lured the old man into the
caves and did him in.
This troubles the sisters. They are even more
disturbed by ,fthe ' .possibility that'-, the , M6ntdfVi.mi$fit
escape i rohV the' ice' fcaesVianavget i'lito the'-lidusd. So'
they hire two professional killers to get rid of this thing
that is making a bit of a nuisance of itself.
The two gunmen are ready to kill the creature, but
the sisters' 7 ft. 2 in. 300 lb. butler suddenly dies
mysteriously. Before they bury him, the four rush off to
make iove, just one of the many strange things they do
during the course of the novel. They finally decide the
butler must be buried, but when they return to his
body, they find he has shrunk until he is only 31 inches.
They are more than slightly relieved, because now
they can bury him in a suitcase, instead of having to
build a huge coffin for him. Unfortunately, after he is
buried, the dwarfed butler returns to his normal size
and awakens, not altogether happy at discovering he is
buried in a suitcase. But this is digression.
It is enough to say that the monster, through some
wily tricks by the two gunmen, is finally destroyed in a
scene that is reminiscent of the final, pyromaniacal
sequences from acient Frankenstein movies.
That's the story. But the reader's enjoyment will not
be spoiled by the plot revelations here. One expects,
when he reads a book of this sort, that the monster will
be defeated, and in the end, justice will prevail. The joy
of this book is not only in the plot it is in the numerous
detours and incidents that occur on tha road to the
tale's completion.
But don't overlook the meaning the book-can tiav& ftir
the thinking reader; On first reading; " there is a
tendency to accept the story for what it appears to
be another crazy Brautiaan tale. But there has never
been a Braitgan work that has not meant something
and The Hawkline Monster is no exception. There are
too many oppositions (sexdeath, heatcold, light
dark, etc.) to consider. And there's the ending do the
characters live happily ever after? f ...
Read this book once, and enjoy it. Then read It again,
and i hink ahntit it
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thursday, September 12, 1974
