Word: ampler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gunesekera's first novel, Reef, became a Booker Prize finalist in 1994, thanks to its meticulous evocation of the marketing of paradise (symbolized by a coral reef in Sri Lanka). His new one, The Sandglass (The New Press; 288 pages; $21.95), sweeps that theme up into an even ampler examination of how independent Sri Lanka devolved into bloody anarchy and its people got scattered around the globe. Its protagonist, essentially, is twilight, and its brief sections, following the hours of the day ("Late Morning," "Quarter to Five," "Darkness"), tell us, unequivocally, that time is running...
...have highlighted their staggering abhorrence of fat. Shown drawings of an obese child and children with various disabilities, they were asked whom they would select to be their friend. The obese child always came in last. Perhaps as their elders become a bit more forgiving of excess pounds and ampler figures, American youngsters will pick...