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Reviews and Commentary for Sailor Song
Synopsis:
The merry anarchist of American letters and author of One Flew Over
the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion triumphantly returns with
a darkly comic novel set in the near future. "Brimming with wild characters
and hairpin plot twists. . . ."--Boston Sunday Globe.
From Kirkus Reviews, 06/14/92:
After 25 years, a new novel from Kesey--a brilliant, funny, heartening
tale of the power of love to stomp out evil in the last decent town on
earth--proves that the heroic old Trickster can still pitch a fastball.
Just after the turn of the millennium, Isaak Sallas, a.k.a ``the Bakatcha
Bandit,'' a legendary environmental warrior from the ``Nasty Nineties,''
wakes up in his antique trailer to confront a couple of unwelcome omens
from the end of the world. The most deadly sign is the silvery albino Nick
Levertov, the bad-seed son of Alice (``the Angry Aleut''), battering the
hell out of blowzy Louise Loop. The next day, watching a huge silver movie-company
yacht sail into the harbor with Levertov aboard, Sallas realizes that Levertov
has come back to Kuinak, Alaska, to settle a score of grievances. A couple
of decades before, Sallas, once a CIA flier who won the Navy Cross, had
to bear the death of his baby daughter- -a death caused by his own exposure
to pesticides. The tragedy transformed him absolutely. The next day, he
used his pesticide plane to drop a fragrant load on an upper-middle-class
crowd at a California county fair: right ``Bakatcha.'' His fire had burned
out long since, he now thinks. He'd hoped to live in peaceful obscurity
in this last unpolluted backwater, fishing with the jolly Brit skipper
Carmody and his Rasta sidekick Greer. Now, however, with Levertov buying
up and corrupting the town with wads of movie money and piles of a designer
drug called ``Scoot,'' Sallas discovers that he has the stuff--the love
and faith--to drive evil out of town: ``Dolls were being set up, and being
knocked down. The situation was in progress, and in dedicated lock; it
couldn't be blinked and it couldn't be ducked.'' A wonderful tale for the
times, proving Kesey is ``Bakacha'' after all these years. -- Copyright
©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text
refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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