Word: annelies
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...Guterson's new novel finds a vision of the Virgin Mary. She also finds Satan, smart alecks and all the screaming spirits of premillennial America crying out to her for salvation. Within days of her first Marian sighting, 5,000 pilgrims are following the ecstasies of what they call Ann of Oregon, Greater Catholic Merchandise Outlet trucks are circling around and timber companies are sending out their p.r. representatives...
...young woman's epiphanies--Ron Hansen's stately Mariette in Ecstasy, Mark Salzman's piercing Lying Awake--the story turns upon the riddle of where revelation ends and delusion begins. Guterson's Our Lady of the Forest (Knopf; 323 pages) leaves such questions and the purity and mystery of Ann's sightings largely intact. Instead the author concentrates on how her clear, white vision refracts into a rainbow of reflections, few of them exalted. His book is, in effect, a group of portraits of beat-up, lived-in lives that amounts to a group portrait of America today...
...bewildered immigrants, messed-up drunks and eco-fanatics. Anyone hoping for the delicate earnestness and lyrical settings of Guterson's earlier worksomething more like his best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars--is in for a rough surprise. If much of the story of the solitary "visionary," as he calls Ann, updates the classic witch trials of old and echoes the trajectory of every messiah, it could also be read as an account of what happens to those visionaries called celebrated novelists, surrounded by flunkies, groupies and flakes...
Serving at 5-4 in the first set of his second-round match at the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships at Ann Arbor, Mich. on Friday, Cliff Nguyen’s persistent cramps—which had been plaguing him since the day before—may have finally proved to be too much...
Asked if he knew who he was facing in the opening round of the ITA National Indoor Singles Tournament in Ann Arbor, Mich., Nguyen just shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t know,” he confessed. “I don’t look at the draw the day of [a tournament]—it’s not necessary...