'Charlie's Bluff'
ingenious tale
ARTHUR TURFA
of the Collegian Staff
l'sually a- work of
speculative historical fiction
finds itself 19hrown in with the
fantasy and science fiction
books Books like Philip K
liick s Th( 4 Man in the High
Tmker . uhich paints the
\\ is as the victors of WW
‘%ill never be considered to be
Literature i notice the capital
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However. the genre has
lound itself a ehilmpton in re
cent months Donald Thomas.
whose literary efforts have
been mainly in verse rather
than prose has produced a
hronole of the House of
Review -
s;tuart s c. struggle' for Great
Britain's throne that seizes
the redder's interest and
ielaxes its grip only when the
last page has been read
\% hat distinguishes "Prince
Charlie s Bluff A NaVel of
the &ngdoin of Virginia"
om its pedestrian predeces
,,,irs is an ingenious device
Rather than relat nig events in
the third person. Thomas
conceives of a fragmented
iournal kept by a contem
porary of
_Bonnie Prince
'harhe that is prepar&l for
publication by the grandson of
the journal's author.
• Thomas apprOaches all
ekents through this premise.
The publication even is
entrusted to Woodrow Wilson,
president of Princeton
iniversitv, "who, had the cir
cumstances of history been
altered, might also have been
President of the United
States
The illusion that the book
describes actual historical
events is _kept going by
sentences ll4te "How quickly
the power of government un
der Lord Casimir's Regency
passed to McAlistatr and his
'patriots' is well enough
known". It is not that Thomas
lacks imagination to carry the
drama of the Kingdom of
)
Virginia to t ' present day, in
tact his ima ination doesn't
seem to sti ter from any
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deficiency. hut he conceives
of his work as being a part of
a much larger. albeit un
written. whole:
As the journal author, Lovat
Fraser. was a soldier, it isn't
surprising at all to discover
that a large part'of it contains
vivid battle description.
General Wolfe's Quebec cam
paign of 1759. which turns out
differently for George II in
this work, is extremely well
handled.
Prince Charles' political
maneuverings to seize power
untie colony of Virginia. aided
by several colorful supporting
characters. makes for en
joyable reading. Col. George
Washington turns up here and
there as a man who has-deter
mitied never to wage war
again
The Prince's old nemesis
from the Battle of Culloden
11745. where in actuality, the
Stuart hopes were snuffed out
by the Hanoverians'
brutality) William. Duke of
Cumberland. returns with an
army to save the northern
colonies and to put an end to
the hopes of the Pretender.
At the Battle of Annapolis,
in late May 1761, for those
who haven't become ac
quainted with ttte novel, the
inglorious defeat of the
Stuarts at Culloden is
avenged. Although the battle
took two days, the second day
is reported through second
hand information, as Lovat
Fraser spends that day con
ducting a skirmish in An
napolis itself.
Thomas' characters have a
remarkable tendency to come
alive. —The pseudo-historical
work reads much better than
the standard historical fare,
both scholarly and non
scholarly.
All in all, "Prince Charlie's
Bluff" (actually a
geographical feature from the
Battle of Annapolis, and not a
ruse contrived by His Royal
Highness) is one of the more
entertaining novels to have
appeared this year.
Hopefully Thomas will con
tinue to produce similar prose
works, and not devote himself
solely to poetry.
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