Books: Horob's Way

IN THE TIME OF GREENBLOOM (407 pp.) —Gabriel Fielding—Morrow ($4.75).

The title of this exciting new novel sounds like an archaic phrase in celebration of spring. But Greenbloom is a man, not a season. More important, he is a state of mind. Greenbloom is awareness, sentience, ceaseless war on man's most deadly enemy, which is not cancer or heart disease, but habit—all the routines of thinking, feeling and doing that enable humans to get through life without living it.

The soul that Greenbloom saves is that of adolescent John Blaydon, who is typical...

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