Word: anatolians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FICTION: The Anatolian, Elia Kazan Family Trade, James Carroll Famous Last Words, Timothy Find ley ∙The Girl of the Sea of Cortez, Peter Benchley The Woods, David Plante ∙Worldly Goods, Michael Korda
...here, has to be an anarchist, a boxer or a gangster." In fact, all Stavros ever wants to be is rich. Much has happened to him since he landed in New York in America America, published in 1962. The immigrant is now 32, the year is 1909, and Anatolian-born Stavros, or Joe Arness, as his American friends call him, has finally saved up enough money to bring his whole family: "Mommah," four brothers and three sisters to the U.S. He has laid a veneer of American-style street smarts on the skills of the hamal, or dock walloper...
...ANATOLIAN by Elia Kazan; Knopf; 436 pages...
...Greek immigrant father was a rug importer, may have shared some of his character's social trepidations as a student at Williams and Yale. His college nickname was Gadge, short for Gadget ("I was small, compact and eccentric"), but there is nothing mechanical in his development of The Anatolian. With humor and affection, as well as a bruised sense of the dark side of immigrant life, he has woven a saga as richly textured as a fine Kirman carpet. Or one of the great old Kazan films, for which The Anatolian would have made fine grist. -By Michael Demarest
...shaggy as a sheep. Komondors have been protecting flocks from wolves for centuries in Hungary. Now they are standing guard over American sheep in more than two dozen states from the Rockies to New England. Other Old World breeds are beginning to appear on U.S. ranches as well: the Anatolian shepherd; the Great Pyrenees from the mountains between France and Spain; the Italian Maremma; the Yugoslavian shepherd of Shar Planinetz; and the Kuvasz, a short-haired Hungarian cousin of the Komondor...