'devil's Garden' Is A Remarkable Book

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Mon, 04/20/2009 - 3:24pm

(By BRUCE DeSILVA, Associated Press Writer) “Devil's Garden” (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 354 pages, $25.95), by Ace Atkins America, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle once said, “elevates a man more quickly than any nation in the world, and casts him down more quickly – quite often on surmise or mere hunch.” It was an insight Arbuckle gained the hard way.He had once been one of Hollywood's biggest silent screen stars, a Chris Farley look-alike whose antics kept the nation in stitches.

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