Rain or Shine
McFadden, Cyra
RAIN OR SHINE: A FAMILY MEMOIR Cyra McFadden/Alfred A. Knopf/$16.95 Thomas Mallon novels is that the world can be grasped by action, not by contemplation. "I did not care what it was all about,"...
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...Cyra became a sallow stepdaughter, dreaming of the roguish real father who had receded into myth...
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...I don't recall the question, but ingway's characters, we would not I do remember the brief laughing con-recognize David and Catherine Bourne sensus this thick dollop of sexual if we met them, and yet we enter fully charm brought to the audience...
...had lived most of her life in thrall to I am told by someone who has read a more dangerous version of the cow-the original manuscript of The Garden boy charm mentioned above...
...Cy's first wife and Cyra's mother was Pat Montgomery, a dancer and trick rider...
...Edmund allowed to pay for her drinks in certain Wilson wrote of the early Hemingway bars in the West...
...After one angrily botched attempt at reconciliation, she "walked out of his hotel room [in San Francisco], determined never to see him again...
...A lean and savage account told with controlled anger...
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...She is an innocent who the daughter of Cy 'Paillon, all-time nonetheless manages to be a conduit of king of rodeo announcers, and that she other people's worst tendencies...
...Pat was left to settle in Missoula, Montana with Roy Qualley, Cy's former best pal, a "heel snapper" who'd helped keep Pat and Cy organized on the circuit, all the time waiting to claim Pat the moment she and Cy fell apart...
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...He was the most beautiful man who ever lived,' she said...
...She is clever with similes (forced into houseclothes, ex-glamour-queen Pat "looked self-conscious and uncomfortable, like a dog children have dressed in doll clothes"), and unafraid of puns ("I gloried in gilt by association...
...Stepchildren are legend-wreckers...
...They weren't enlightened but self-centered...
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...His force of personality was such that Cyra was more than twenty before she realized her father was short...
...Cy Talon used to win over the crowds with a rich vocabulary that flattered their unlearned ears...
...By Cyra's third birthday she had traveled 150,000 miles with them, enough to merit an A.P...
...While they were still married, Cy and Pat could literally forget about Cyra (driving seventy miles out of Cheyenne before realizing she wasn't in the car), and upon their divorce could enter into a joint-custody agreement for the opposite of today's usual reasons: "In fact, neither wanted custody...
...William Westmoreland "4n extraordinary book...
...The atmosphere is languid, occasion to attend a debate on the melting...
...essays, poetry , and apologetics...
...The Garden of Eden opens with them sitting around the Grau du Roi in the off-season...
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...Hemingway characters may be passive, but they manage to submerge themselves in "the destructive element...
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...An adventurer, a combat veteran of two tours in Vietnam, and an embittered former member of the anti-war movement, John M. G. Brown writes of the war that divided and marked a generation...
...McFadden is herself a funny writer...
...They go where the action is...
...Pat's tyrannical sister Ila Mae, a believer in pickles, ammonia, and Jesus, took up the slack of Pat's broken spirit and helped, on her visits to Missoula, with the transformation of Cyra from childhood swan to adolescent duckling...
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...She is not amoral, West, that Cyra McFadden was in fact she is unmoral...
...This is a serious book about being a leftover child, an annoying consequence of obsolete passion...
...McFadden is still somewhat blinded by them...
...For years she was estranged from Cy by pride and politics and mutual cussedness, but hispull on her emotions remained as strong as a cowboy's rope...
...Last night 12 year old girl was stabbed six times in her home...
...In The Garden of Eden, we rodeos, no matter how chronic a loser see the late Hemingway investing the cowboy...
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...No other writer handsome West Texas cowboy got up can get away with telling us in such and asked if he could put a question detail what his characters eat at every "to both of you very provocative meal...
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...CHESTERTON COLLECTED WORKS 45 hoarder (he even saved bacon grease in the basement), he imprisoned his prize until her energies withered...
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...But it isn't fashion designer born in the Bronx long before Catherine starts to make puts it—that spirit of the West in all of odd demands which her husband can- us...
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...What takes years to discover is the resemblance, but it always will out...
...David goes fishing at one Equal Rights Amendment in the point, and the outing is curiously Municipal Auditorium of Lubbock, emblematic—far from stalking big Texas...
...Ratzinger's forthright, measured criticism of certain forms of liberation theology, and his removal of the imprimatur from two widely read books in the U.S., are well known...
...If there was no first marriage, there could be no child born of it...
...of Eden that it is an unpublishable Cy Taillon was a braggart, a liar, a mess...
...But David and Catherine are more like lotus-eaters on a remote shoreline...
...It is an was a funny book about that land of indication of how oddly "post- fibrous foods, hot tubs, and massaged modern" this book is that Marita consciousnesses, and from it one would reminds one of no other woman in never have guessed that its author had literature so much as Ruth in Pinter's her real roots in an older version of the The Homecoming...
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...McFadden says she cannot explain why "it takes so many years to forgive one's parents their failings and sympathize with their disappointments...
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...You don't look very much like him.' " Cy and Pat both "in-vented" themselves—this is an American story for reasons beyond locale—and even when they were forced to retract their early versions, Cyra was left hurting in the gaudy glare of the afterimages, ones the child naturally preferred to her parents' later respectability...
...But this is not just the story of a couple of hell-raisers or a local-color look at the unregulated days of rodeo...
...So they loved him, even human relationships with that same when he borrowed their prize money or quality, the only time he did so in a novel...
...A couple of "peacocks in a world of mud hens," they were always so impatient to get to the next town that they couldn't sit through a whole movie much less wait for their laundry to be ready—they just got in the car and forgot about it...
...The only thing you told me not to do," she drawled at Cy when he came back to get her, summoned by his mother, "was smoke-in the barn...
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...game fish on the open seas, like some Karen DeCrow (former president of Hemingway characters, he fishes in a NOW) had been abusing one another canal with a bamboo pole...
...It is a curious book, and it will Thomas Mallon teaches English at make the Hemingway legacy that much Vassar College and is the author of A more difficult to figure out...
...their wives...
...She writes: "We look alike, more so as I get older...
...Few weeks ago 9 year old girl was Raped all most died they haven't caught the man yet...
...She has a good time chronicling her parents' early wildness: 'Iivo small people with enormous egos, they loved each other but needed the reassurance to be found in numbers, the proof that marriage hadn't dimmed their separate luster...
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...I did not care what it was all about," says Jake Barnes...
...Hemingway never wrote bet- cowboys (for helping to transform ter dialogue, not even in The Sun Also rodeo from a carnival into a sport) that Rises...
...He was also talent under its roof, because the novel handsome enough to double for Robert that we have is a rounded and satisfy- Taylor in the movies, and so revered by ing work...
...is a question which puzzled made a name for herself with The Hemingway as much as it did Freud...
...But her book has great charm and shrewdness, and she comes poignantly to terms with recollection...
...They competed in drink and infidelity, "two careless people . . . doing their imitation of Scott and Zelda...
...If that is so, the House of compulsive scrapbook-keeper who be-Scribner has a young editor of great lieved his press clippings...
...Serial, a satire of the modern West, or Still things go fine until a snake enters at least that attenuation of it known as the garden in the form of a beautiful Marin County, California...
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...Didn't make it, he was just out of prison...
...Like my father, I love the road show, packing a bag, heading off somewhere or nowhere, traveling light, never looking back over my shoulder...
...No-into the atmosphere of their life body east of longitude 100°W could together—the swims off deserted have gotten away with it, but this beaches, the long aperitifs on bright cowboy was the genuine article, terraces, the playful conversations somebody who could touch—as that about nothing in particular...
...Pat and Cy inevitably split up, Cy to marry Dorothy, who sobered him into a respectable legend, a rodeo equivalent of Bing Crosby or John Wayne...
...The two parents are pictured in sepia glamour on the cover of Rain or Shine...
...And for years, when the rodeo was in town, I told my second husband that I was going to a movie and drove out to listen to my father's baritone voice rolling out in the darkness of the Cow Palace...
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...He would rarely "for-that he invested his landscapes with "a get a cowboy's name, or where he came sinister quality which must be new in from, or how he fared in previous literature...
...My mother wasn't...
...And the descriptive writing is to this day Cyra McFadden isn't evocative, if occasionally flat...
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...Cy wanted to pursue his rodeo career...
...When Cyra could get up the gumption to acknowledge her own actuality, she, like everybody else, could only see herself as an unglamorous family acorn: "In my teens, I met a woman who knew Cy in Great Falls...
...Cy didn't like Cyra's reminding him of his old love for Pat, and Dorothy (his new wife) disliked her for the same reason...
...We are given a wide variety of highly readable and enjoyable selections from his noels...
...In this extensive, wide-ranging interview, Cardinal Ratzinger addresses a variety of critical issues in the Church, making clear what he thinks the problems are—and their solutions...
...She thinks of Cy's calling with a peculiar grandiosity ("My father was destined to announce rodeos the way other people are born cellists or water diviners"), and seems aware of her occasional inclination to romanticize her parents, like the truck stops and bars of her earliest memories...
...Aside from all else, linguistic showmanship is one more thing that has brought her to the point we all reach sooner or later—that time when our memories are more likely set off by what's in the mirror than what's on the mantel...
...She even attempted to convince Cyra that she didn't exist: "She reasoned as follows...
...Pat was as vain as Cy and just as capable of bantamweight brawling ("A hundred-pound woman can do substantial damage with teeth, fingerThree Outstanding New Books Name Street City State Zip nl Please include $1.50 for postage and handling...
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...When Cy parked Pat on the [Taillon family] farm in North Dakota one summer, the better to cut his own wide swath on the circuit, she seduced every able-bodied man for miles...
...What does woman About ten years ago Cyra McFadden want...
...If Cy had"married outside the Church, he hadn't really married...
...Ila Mae's cautionary letters from Great Falls are among the incidental pleasures of Rain or Shine: Our town is full of Rape stabbings and dope...
...It must be clearly stated that a real reform of the Church presupposes an unequixocal turning away from the erroneous paths whose catastrophic consequences are already incontestable...
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...They work on their tans, try new cocktails, and discuss what they are going to eat at the One evening late in the 1970s I had next meal...
...wirephoto of herself with the caption: "She Sees America...
...All I wanted to know was how to live in it...
...Pat wanted to pursue the fantasy that she was still a show girl despite her marriage to Roy...
Vol. 19 • September 1986 • No. 9
