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GARDEN STATE by JULIAN MOYNAHAN 282 pages. Little, Brown...
...Julian Moynahan, who lives near Princeton and teaches English at Rutgers, knows his ground. Out of such unpromising material as New Jersey zoning laws and state statutes, he has fashioned a whimsical specimen of an up-and-coming subgenre: the eco-novel. The wealthy residents-Howard's ex-neighbors-want nothing to despoil the green splendor of their homes and three-acre lots. Less favored citizens want Watchung-because it will help to pay property taxes...
...another, then telling all at the climactic town meeting. The spectacle of elected officials and corporate legal lizards cowering in ashen fear before a public recitation of their misdeeds seems sadly old-fashioned in this summer of '73. Plucky loners rarely stop corporations dead in their tracks, as Moynahan knows; the Watchung caper is a fictionally spiced version of several successful corporate moves into Princeton and environs in recent years. The novel's dedication ("To the Millstone River Valley and to the memory of lost green fields") marks it as a valedictory, but the plot refuses...
...protesting women undergraduates who didn't bother to solicit the support of the Radcliffe reunioning classes for their demands for equal status at the University. Instead, they confined their activities to those who really run this great quasi-public institution; those men marching in Harvard Yard. Elizabeth Reilly Moynahan Radcliffe A.B. '46 Harvard B. Arch...
PAIRING OFF, by Julian Moynahan. The book masquerades as a novel but is more like having a nonstop non sequitur Irish storyteller around-which may be more welcome than well-made fiction...