Word: adrift
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...company that once had a magic touch--creating the Walkman, Trinitron TV and PlayStation, among other breakthrough products--has run adrift in an age of increasing competition and digital convergence. Its core electronics business, which accounts for more than 60% of revenues (but lost $339 million last year), has been beset by successful competitors, ranging from Sharp televisions to Kodak digital cameras, in virtually all its product lines. Most humiliating: Sony lost its leadership in portable music players by failing to capitalize on the popularity of MP3 files--a gap that Apple's iPod has exploited masterfully. The company...
...with The Comfort of Strangers, I came to the end of something," he says. "I had been in the grip of the last gasp of existentialism, writing about people adrift in cities that are not named. Now I want specificity. Maybe it's a function of aging. I feel as if I've got less time left; I want to make sense." Not perfect sense; his later novels, like The Innocent, Black Dogs and Enduring Love, are still full of absurdity and enigma. But the characters have a more full-blooded life. Combine that with McEwan's companionable mind--strange...
...first there were some friends with me ... after a few days they were gone." RIZAL SYAHPUTRA, Indonesian police trainee, who survived for eight days adrift at sea after the tsunami swept him away from a mosque in Aceh...
...Winton's novels, minor characters are often set adrift only to resurface in other works; here they overlap and metamorphose. The collection's most haunting figure, small-town crim and shark hunter Boner McPharlin, goes from being the sheepskin-coated kid glimpsed in Long, Clear View to the silent driving partner of the narrator of Boner McPharlin's Moll, who, decades later, returns from overseas to nurse him in a psychiatric hospital. At its best, the device creates a poetic sense of ribboning destiny. "Perhaps time moves through us," concludes the narrator of Aquifer, "and not us through...
...because for perhaps ten years we will be single, mobile, adrift, Harvard is for many of us a of port of call where we prepare for our departure. Every year, we acquire more trappings of a home and fill our rooms with them; every year, there are more boxes to carry from storage. Every year, we become closer to the people we live with, reproducing in small ways the rituals of the families we’ve left. We eat together. We play board games. We congratulate each other extravagantly on minor successes. We have our own jokes and nicknames...