11/14/2023 0 Comments Accessories for dark runnerThere he instantlyestablished his domination over everybody and so could enjoy, in a superior manner, the folly of lesser mortals.Ĭhief fools at the Mariner were: Philip Geer Manchester, the headwaiter, brilliantly dishonest, “handsome in the accepted feminine manner,” patient and malicious planner of cruel practical jokes Sandra Miller, the pretty cashier, a “child of nature” who couldn't say no Laurence Jenkins, the muscular lifeguard, in love with Sandra Mrs. LeBlanche (his initials stood for Judas Iscariot, and thereby hangs a tale) devotes about two‐thirds of his story to the summer of 1959, which he spent as first chef at the Mariner Hotel on Cape Cod. Cuomo's real gift is not comedy at all, but serious, Freudian tragedy. The characters tearing themselves and others to pieces out of love and hate are entirely believable and pathetically interesting. The characters involved in ribald highjinks are unreal and uninteresting. Cuomo has chiefly relied, plus, of course, lots of sex, lots of farce and lots of drama. Huffing and puffing, synthetic high spirits and a strenuous style are not enough.īut these are the methods on which Mr. But it is tricky and difficult to manage successfully. Such a formula can be exceedingly entertaining. Perhaps we might call it the picaresqueprotest noveI, Like the conventional picaresque novel, it concerns the adventures of a rogue and deals in exaggeration and comic nonsense not intended to be taken seriously.īut, unlike most picaresque novels, it is laced throughout with the author's bitter protest against the unsatisfactory nature of men and society. He was a cook who specialized in working at resort hotels, in New England in the summer, in Florida or California in the winter.Īrrogant as Louis XIV, not as lecherous as Casanova but as lecherous as was practicable for a tired man of 54, cynical and yet robustly fond of fun and games, LeBlanche isthe narrator and nonhero of a huge novel by George Cuomo, “Bright Day, Dark Runner.” This wildly uneven, sometimes funny but often tedious novel is a representative example of a new subdivision of fiction as yet untitled.
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