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The adventure begins in 1974, when Elizabeth and her husband Bob take part of their $18,000 nest egg and buy a three-acre island on Stuart Lake in British Columbia. Maneuvering a leaky river boat, the young Americans arrive in midsummer with a dog, a cat, their worldly possessions...
So Cambridge paid for an independent appraisal of the one-acre vacant lot, which the neighborhood wants for use as a playground. The 30-page report, finished last week, sets the value of the land at only $430,000--$50,000 less than the total Cambridge paid the University.
In a lovely wooded area of New Jersey known as the Pine Barrens, more than 100 wells have been poisoned by chemicals leaching from the 135-acre Jackson Township dump. James McCarthy, who had drunk well water for ten years, had one kidney removed in 1977, and now has trouble...
In March, hydrogen gas began rising from a shed on the property where 25 badly corroded drums of chlorosilane had been stored next to 100 bbl. of flammable solvents. Rain soaking the chlorosilane created a smoky chemical reaction. Fear of an explosion caused city officials to order the area vacated...
Doctorow is indeed playing a variation on an old theme: the American dream, set to the music of an American nightmare, the Depression. Much of the book's plot is generated by a single gathering of characters in 1936. A group of gangsters and their girlfriends travel to Loon...