From: syderange@aol.com (Syderange)
Newsgroups: alt.books.reviews
Subject: Glenn Savan "Goldman's Anatomy"
Date: 17 Mar 1995 19:05:57 -0500


Goldman's Anatomy

by
Glenn Savan

Published by Bantam Books 1994

What do you do when your last novel received critical kudos and was then
thrown in the Hollywood blender which churned it into puerile pablum for
the masses?  If you're Glenn Savan, the author of White Palace, a book
which introduced the word "calypigian" to the common man, you take your
time and score with a second novel that is a cut above the first and
doomed to be razored and bleached for its eventual arrival on the big
screen.

In Goldman's Anatomy, Savan creates a delicately balanced love triangle
between three of society's misfits.  Savan's prose is at its tightrope
best when describing the manic attacks of Redso, the off-center genuis who
draws Billy, a spiritually wounded rabbi's daughter and Arnie,  physically
twisted by rheumatoid arthritis, into his dangerous universe.  Like a
gyroscope with a flaw, the love affair begins to wobble and shake until
the imperfections that drew the trio together causes the inevitable
emotional implosion.  

Glenn Savan shows with his avoidance of a kneejerk second novel based upon
the squeezings of his past success, that he's not gunning for Hollywood
like so many of the young authors today, but that Hollywood is gunning for
him.  Serpentine Glenn, serpentine. 

Copyright 1995 David M, Glitzer