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...WONDER-WORKER by DAN JACOBSON 191 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...winner was Paul Jacobson, 23, a Chicago news photographer, who at first passed his time taking pictures from his perch, keeping a diary and watching TV. After three months and several news stories about his isolated existence, he found another diversion...
answering phone calls from a Chicago girl. The calls soon led to letters and finally to love. Two weeks ago Jacobson hoisted her atop the flagpole, and she moved in with him. Promoter Neumann ordered the girl down. The couple refused. Then he offered to have a wedding ceremony performed atop the flagpole, and even threw in a promise of a free honeymoon if the girl would come down after the ceremony. Jacobson would have none of it. After 156 days aloft, he gave up his perch and potential profits last week for the woman he loves. Neumann, already hunting...
South African-born Writer Dan Jacobson built a small but solid reputation dealing with what he knew best: the politics and heartbreak of apartheid, the sour loneliness of race supremacy, and love shattered by cultural collision, and the moral and intellectual conflicts of exile. Jacobson is now 45, and he moved to England permanently in 1954. Three years ago after the tread on these original themes had begun to wear a little thin, Jacobson seemed to take a fresh fictional start and produced his best novel. Called The Rape of Tamar, it was an ironic retelling of the Old Testament...
What, then, is the point? Author Jacobson naturally does not offer road signs: "Meaning ½ Mile," or "Slow Down, Paradox Ahead." The Wonder-Worker seems to be yet another modern parable of total cultural disintegration...