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Didn't Cormier write a book call FADE which showed the darker side of
being invisible? Any chance SMOKE is accessible by YA students?
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Debbie Abilock "It is important that students bring a certain
The Nueva School ragamuffin barefoot irreverence to their studies;
6565 Skyline Blvd. they are not here to worship what is known,
Hillsborough, CA 94010 but to question it." (Jacob Bronowski)
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On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Alice H. Yucht wrote:
> Why wait for a vacation -- although here in the Northeast, I suspect we
> will be having many mini-vacation snow days this year...
> Donald Westlake's latest comedy-mystery, *Smoke*, is the perfect
> antidote to a bad week at school: 'laugh-out-loud' funny, 'now-what'
> suspenseful, and even "big issue" thought-provoking. It's about a
> thief who has become invisible -- a quality which could be an asset
> in his line of work, but which also creates additional, unforeseen
> (pardon the pun) problems for him. Westlake has a truly inventive
> mind; as you read, you find yourself wondering how he manages to
> think up these twists! Along the way, he also manages to take
> potshots at various aspects of contemporary culture, especially
> corporate funding of "medical" research.
> Actually, all of Westlake's books are comedy-mysteries, and all
> contain some kind of scathing commentary on an aspect of contemporary
> society, but I do think this is the best one he's ever written.
> Alice H. Yucht
> yucht@zodiac.rutgers.edu
>
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