Monday, September 9, 1985
Daily Nebraskan
'Men and Angels' rich, complex,
but packed with generalizations
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By Colleen Holloran
Staff Reporter ,
"Men and Angels" by Mary
Gordon. Random House. 239
Pages. $16.95.
It's easy to have high hopes for a
book when three interesting women
Book Review
are introduced in the first six pages.
The characters, Anne, Helene and Laura,
are immediately distinct, three-dimensional,
passionate people.
"Men and Angels" is about passion
of all kinds maternal, sexual, artis
tic and religious. Anne is the mother of
two and an art historian, equally con
sumed by her love for her husband and
children and her work cataloging the
Mework of an unknown 19th-century
artist.
Helene is a jealous scholar who is in
love with Anne's husband, Michael.
Laura is a twisted religious fanatic who
becomes Anne's live-in babysitter.
The relationships between these
characters, and later Jane, the artist's
daughter-in-law, comprise the frame
work of the book. Anne reluctantly
agrees to take Laura in; Michael is in
London for the school year on a univer
sity faculty exchange program, and she
needs in-home child care if she is to
continue her assignment. Her reluc
tance stems partly from the fact that it
was Helene who recommended Laura
and partly because she is unnerved by
the seemingly spiritless 19-year-old.
Laura's problem is a bizzare one: She
considers herself the chosen one of
God. She is secretly bent on saving
Anne from her earthly encumbrances,
including her home, her children and
her husband. She can lead Anne out of
sin, and Anne will be so grateful she
will love only Laura.
Parts of the book, especially when
Anne is mentally debating whether or
not to have an affair with her electri
cian, are terribly forced. Much of the
dialogue is the same. Anne's friend
declares, "When you're a mother, you
think with your claws."
Generalization is not the same as
insight. Gordon could have used less of
the former and more of the latter.
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his father's most famous song.
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