Summer Crossing
Tesich, Steve
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...had called him Freud and that was all it took...
...Price is like Daniel, from his thick hair to his lack of confidence...
...If, in Asahina's opinion, fighting the abortion fight makes conservatives look like "reactionaries," then tough...
...And, as his father slowly and agonizingly dies of cancer in Daniel's house on the very sofa where he and Rachel had made love, Daniel is torn between hatred and guilt, and terror that he will end up like that...
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...She is Daniel's first love, a girl whom he adores, but of whose affection he is never sure...
...He envies Larry's resolve and independence, his ability to be an island...
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...He marvels at Larry's heretofore unknown literary talent and he marvels, as the book progresses, at Larry, who seems to be somewhat of an island himself...
...Of the three friends who graduate together, only Larry wishes to escape from the steel mills of "da region...
...To begin with he remains refreshingly apart from the futile freneticism, the exaggerated drive, the bombastic commitment, all the empty agitation and ambiguous oratory that characterizes American government...
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...He asks Daniel to come with him so they can be heroes together...
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...Nothing is superfluous in Steve Tesich's first novel, Summer Crossing, and Larry's poem is no exception...
...All three relationships could be successful, Daniel thinks, were it not for Freud/David/Father who thwart him at every opportunity...
...There are only a few hackneyed observations: his geniality, his niceness...
...Practically alone, Ronald Reagan has raised the conservative critique of government to a Congress, a Washington bureaucracy, and a news media that theretofore had furtively ignored it...
...While head of the actors' union he faced real danger, requiring him to carry a gun...
...Freudian psychology is at work throughout the novel in the form of David, who comes between Rachel and Daniel, and in the very complicated relationship between Daniel and his father...
...they were all tall and dark, ferocious warriors all of them, heroes all of them...
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...He responded with grace and a series of hilarious lines...
...She too is independent and illusive, and try as he might, Daniel cannot hold on to her any more than he can keep Larry in East Chicago...
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...Not even Andrew Jackson matched those heroics...
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...He is profoundly principled, but somehow detached from the squirrelly urgency that has brought so many of our-recent Messiahs to ruin...
...Even more astonishing was that she had accepted him...
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...After this the liberals take over, and their hackneyed observations are not all that dulcet...
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...It is not, I suspect, for the reasons he states, but rather because abortion has been and is going to be a nasty fight...
...Ironically, Larry and Rachel, whom Daniel admires for their ability to stand alone, just want to be like everyone else...
...Then why has Asahina selected out abortion for the President to put on the back burner...
...Consider the December 13 Time magazine cover story...
...And so I went out into the world...
...Is this the liberal's fault...
...He has lost more often than Senator Kennedy...
...But don't let Tesich deceive you...
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...Admittedly abortion is a moral issue...
...Surely he could tell-one look at her was enough to tell-that this foreign woman with Oriental features was not the woman for him...
...CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 26) Wade necessitate more government or less defense...
...Rachel is another island...
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...Asahina should be ashamed to urge such a cowardly course on our President...
...Asahina warns that moralism in politics is as "opprobrious" on the New Right as it is on the Left (as if there is any subject of political debate that is not moral...
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...Price tells his son...
...D (Larry-Daniel and Rachel-Daniel) is Freud...
...Think of what the liberals would make of such an adventure were he theirs...
...Daniel, the narrator of the novel, a young man whose background closely resembles Tesich's, marvels at Larry's poem: "A pang of envy clarified my own opinion of it...
...So begins a poem written by Larry Misiora, one of Daniel Boone Price's two best friends during his senior year at Roosevelt High School in East Chicago, Indiana...
...As Daniel comes to realize that he is not like his mother, whom he envies and admires, but more and more like his father whom he resents and even hates, he is terrified...
...The final triangle in the novel is represented by the Price family...
...Rachel watches the cheerleaders practice and observes others at parties and bonfires as she dreams of acceptance by a group and longingly remembers her friends from childhood...
...There was only one other person I knew who could stand alone like that without looking lonely and afraid, and since I could not bring myself to attack Rachel, I went after Misiora...
...What Robert J. Donovan says of Harry Truman in Donovan's new Truman biography can also be said of Reagan: he is "a buoyant, good-natured, secure individual with a sense of well-being that had carried him through the storms and crises...
...Reagan is at ease with the world...
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...Reagan has performed this task gracefully and amusingly...
...But Daniel is unable to do it, even though he has dreamed often of leaving town and becoming a bum...
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...When he realizes Larry is really going to leave, he confesses: "I lost all control...
...She talked about the men in her family...
...How was it, I wondered, that my father had picked her to be his wife...
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...Heroes, like Larry...
...He loves and envies them both but understands neither one...
...The time involved is shortened due to accelerated, self-paced learning...
...He has for nearly 30 years represented a position of the underdog in American intellectual life, namely: the position of the intellectual conservative...
...He is patronized, though he is not stoned...
...D EDITORIAL (continued from page 6) and articulate . . . avoided coyness . . ." In sum, another heroic moment to add to the liberal's lengthening list of Senator Kennedy's heroic moments, many of which upon closer investigation appear to be defeats...
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...I shall leave it to the psychologists to analyze...
...One of Reagan's crises was a bullet to the chest...
...Yet he remains debonair, sparing us the morbidity so characteristic of our ideologues...
...She was taller, stronger, handsomer...
...He came from one of America's most glamorous settings, Hollywood-and from a legendary Hollywood era at that, the time of Capra films, of Cooper and Stewart and Wayne...
...I must demur...
...More important, perhaps, this student venture, despite its narrow base and its limited re ff I bet, I just bet that some man is an island...
...The novel ends with this line, just as the adult life of Daniel Boone Price is beginning...
...After all, it makes liberals look like monsters...
...The characters evolve in inextricable plots: Larry/Rachel/Mother v. Daniel...
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...So are a lot of the issues Asahina would assign to the realm of "practical" politics...
...Price is the other island...
...Larry wishes he had never graduated from high school so he would not dream of anything beyond the steel mills...
...One hopes that Steve Tesich's career as a novelist is just beginning, too...
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...Billy Freund, Daniel's other friend, is, called Freud because "a substitute teacher...
...Price whose strength, confidence, and independence Daniel recognizes as well as he recognizes his father's weaknesses...
...But Daniel does hope and in the end, he leaves...
Vol. 16 • February 1983 • No. 2
