The Bone People
Miller, Walter M. Jr.
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...Keri Hulme begins this timeless novel with the End, and ends it with the Beginning...
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...they are the secret inner power drawn from one's ancient roots in the Earth of origin and of redemption...
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...They open their hands like flowers, shyly...
...Hollywood will never show itto you -- ithas no sex scenes, and the wrong kind of violence...
...Joe forgives her the beating...
...Now that she is done with it, she takes it to three major publishers down under...
...O NCE upon a time a female Maori tobacco field worker who owned a portable typewriter started writing a story attending to the needs of the disadvantaged to concentrating on the best and the brightest...
...Everything seems hopeless, but -ta-ra...
...he loves the light...
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...As the largest and most powerful constituency in education, one would expect more...
...The child, the mute sea-waif Simon, appears in Kerewin's tower window one day after breaking and entering...
...Differences within Roman Catholicism could so preoccupy it that the larger ecumenism must wait for a "convergence within...
...They form a quaternity now, rooted in the Earth of kinship, and representing the future of a nation-people, part Maori, part Pakeha...
...Sll}kt.iit)l liI)r, ir,, and I'L'%r t'S and tlII),III ( OIltt'xI +I11 tlt\ tttIl i2, i'll\ It t)tlltlt'IIt I~ ",t't' .tntl dis{ ,)vct the' t'+ olttti<m of inittv.,ti \ it,,t'll...
...She smokes cigars, has built herself a phallic tower on the beach to live in, and half-heartedly tries to paint again...
...Courses of study are structured for the individual needs of each student while stressing the integrity of theological and musical disciplines...
...I I I II about a magic child washed up on a New Zealand beach...
...My appraisal: A-plus...
...The heroine is Kerewin, an alienated ex-artist...
...It was the Department of Education's jeremiad, A Nation at Risk, that launched the present conservative reform movement, aptly dubbed the "excellence" movement, in the spring of 1983...
...Keri Hulme, The Bone People, II Ill I lll when--ta-i'a[ ta-ra[--three angels swing down from the skies on god-hoisting tackle...
...but as he ties bleeding in the sand (with Simon by his side crying for him), Kerewin is stricken with a spasm of abdominal pain which will become her nemesis and lead her as a wilting, guilty follower toward the grave...
...O the bones of the people, O the people of the bones...
...The)" are the light...
...MAURICE R. BERUBE iS associate professor of education at Old Dominion University...
...He smiles with them...
...ta-ral -- out come the Bone People from the god-hoisting tackle...
...B.th the h~h qlmhl~" .] tem'hm~ .ml P.' /h'~d,d:/y ,,/lh+" :. ademu 1. o~am e..l,lcd mc t. realize h.tt~ .~.a/, " Rc.,l><.l~d~ng ~ Ic.uivt'l~ t...
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...they are temporarily reunited in friendship...
...m Degree Programs: Master of Music laster of Musical Arts )octor of Musical Arts Master of Divinity er of Sacred Theology ter of Arts in Religion Dual Degree: Master of Music/Master of Arts in Religion I II I Yale Institute of Sacred Music The Institute provides an environment of support for the serious study of music, the arts, liturgy and theology as these disciplines relate to one another and need to be held in creative tension...
...Predicated on the belief that public schooling was failing badly at a time when foreign competitors, especially the Japanese, were outdistancing us in technology, the report was based on some questionable data and inappropriate international academic comparisons...
...Selden considered A Nation at Risk to be a "direct attack on the public schools and teachers...
...The other adult is Joe Gillaley, decently educated, but a Maorf and a factory worker...
...He can also steal, get drunk, start fights, throw tantrums, play hooky, break windows, accept money from the town pederast, and set off fire alarms...
...Arrested, Joe loses custody and goes to jail...
...In between is the dance, in which all of humanity is revealed in three of the dancers, and the universal Earth in a particular island on which they dance...
...The light is blinding...
...Knowing the ending spoils nothing...
...Joe gets drunk and batters him repeatedly, but they continue to love and cling to each other...
...They are the old ones, the relatives, the ancestors who Aeneas-like sailed their gods to New Zealand in the great outriggers long before the coming of the Pakeha (white settlers...
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...Their power of binding and healing and uniting will pass to the new and future Bone People: Kerewin, Joe, Simon, the magic trinity (the author's word), reunited and healed by a mysterious fourth...
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...The silence is music...
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...Kerewin has no interest in children either, but the boy has a wounded heel and she can't throw him out in the rain...
...Kerewin, after a self-diagnosis of the swelling in her belly, packs her bag with opiates and hallucinogens and goes away to die...
...it is all silence...
...WALTER M. MILLER, JR., is the editor of Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead, and the author of A Canticle for Leibowitz (Perennial~Harper & Row...
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...These "gods" may be seen as the inner graces of the characters themselves, but these graces transcend any human individual...
...Simon can't talk, but he can understand, and even write...
...The Bone People belong to the landscape, to the life force (maoriora) of the Earth, to the culture (Maoritonga) and kinship of a people...
...They are those from whom Kerewin, Joe, and Simon, have been ultimately alienated, cut off from divine roots...
...Believable gods they are, though, as believable to us, probably, as the gods that came to the C TI IE( )I / )( ;I( ] \I . UNI( )N "'1 + amc I. (.'TI ' /.~ t...
...But there's not a happy ending yet...
...So she bundles up the manuscript, mixes a bucket of quick-setting resin, and prepares to imbed twelve years of work in a commemorative block of solid plastic, I I I I I I "aduate center where icians and ministers prepare together for vital leadership in congregations f all denominations...
...The tobacco field worker spent twelve years writing the story in her spare time...
...For the moment, the pain passes...
...He holds a hand out to them...
...Joe and his wife Hana had taken in the sea-foundling, but soon afterwards Hana and their baby died, leaving Joe with a beautiful, brutalized Simon to look after alone...
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...But the child's behavior arouses even Kerewin's wrath, and this time Joe's beating sends the boy to the hospital with severe and perinanent injuries...
...And yet it is a love story among three highly explosive characters, one of them the seminal magic child...
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...The people passing smile and .shake their heads...
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...When she catches him in the act, HA// -- she cuts him down with martially trained hands and feet...
...And 1o, it comes to pass that Keri Hulme wins the prize for Maori Literature and the Pegasus prize as we!l, the latter bringing with it publication in the United States...
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...That's not the plot of The Bone People, that's the plot of how it came to exist...
...Walter M. Miller, Jr...
...He is the singer...
...The happy ending is when all you who wish a taste of Maori fiction turn out to buy a copy of her book so that she will have a chance to write another one for us...
...a~r l'hc~)h,gIc.d S~ ho<,Is...
...She learns of the beatings and is sickened...
...She has no interest in men or women...
...What is crucial, however, is that educational reform has yet to emerge from the matrix of the teacher union movement...
...ca ~on...
...she has money, a bad conscience, an intact hymen at thirty-five, the hands and feet of an aikido fighter, and she weighs in at REVIEWERS PAUL BAUMANN is an editorial writer at The Day in New London, Connecticut...
...The NEA reacted defensively...
...E nga iwi o nga iwi...
Vol. 113 • March 1986 • No. 6
