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BLOOD
by Geoff Cochrane
(Victoria University Press, pb $24.95) Reviewed by Michael Eager THE QUOTE that opens Blood is from Samuel Johnson: "The natural flight of the human mind is not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope." It jars with the text. Blood is a Beat novel, in the beaten sense, reminiscent of Kerouac's later work.
The early chapters are memories of a Catholic childhood. Abel Blood has borne too many heavy blows too early, "Our parents had died in the sea in perfect weather". The clutch of the undertow is always...
