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BORN: July 9, 1953, Midland EDUCATION: Albion College, B.A., 1975; U of California at San Diego, J.D., 1978 FAMILY: Wife, Nancy Keil RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Michigan House, 1989-90; U.S. House, 1990- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 423, Midland...
ASSEMBLING CALIFORNIA IS THE fourth and final volume of John McPhee's "Annals of the Former World" series, his reports on the new geology that began running in the New Yorker back in the Shawnian Era. That was before the Albion Shift uplifted Tina Brown from London and thrust her toward Manhattan, where she eventually docked as the magazine's new editor...
...integrity of the spleen." He immediately recommended surgery; her bleeding organ was removed and her life saved. "In the middle of the night, it's reassuring to know that you're bringing your patients the best care available," says Dr. Tony Kusek, a country doctor -- and teleradiology enthusiast -- in Albion...
Roiling these backwaters are two powerful, charismatic figures, Raphael Hunter, an outright scoundrel, and Albion Pugh, who is more of a chronic liar and gifted fabulist. Both men are effortlessly successful with women: Ramsay loses his wife to Hunter and a beloved cousin to Pugh. He envies Pugh's "capacity to mythologise existence . . . his charm and his whatever it was he had instead of genius...
...strength. Near the end, Ramsay betrays his best friend to, of all people, Raphael Hunter, with serious consequences. No one in the large cast escapes the author's stern moral gaze. Ramsay is last seen scheming, probably bootlessly, to pursue the latest young woman to fall in love with Albion Pugh...