Word: astraye
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FICTION: Edisto, Padgett Powell God's Pocket, Pete Dexter ∙ Slow Learner, Thomas Pynchon Sweeney Astray, Seamus Heaney Testing the Current, William McPherson ∙ The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera...
...Cleveland hospital, to which he had been rushed for treatment of a worsening heart condition, he left behind a record of thoroughgoing repression, oppression and tyranny that began to abate only a few years ago. Lamented France's Le Monde: "If ever there was a revolution that went astray in Africa, it was the one that Sékou Touré promised to his people 26 years...
...SWEENEY ASTRAY by Seamus Heaney; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 96 pages...
...digging has thus far unearthed five volumes of poetry, including the bestseller Field Work (1979). Sweeney Astray, to be published next May by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, provides a festival of Heaneyan contradictions. The hero is a modernist ideal: wounded, cunning, lyrical and deranged. His name inescapably recalls T.S. Eliot's Irish vulgarian "Apeneck Sweeney ... among the nightingales." Yet Heaney's man is not a commoner but a king, and he does not merely listen to birds, he becomes one. Sweeney Astray is in fact not an original poem but a brilliant rendition of the 7th century Irish legend...
...camera and attempting to regain his composure. Caine, however, does the best he can and delivers the few comic moments in the film wonderfully. Finally, Demi Moore puts in the movie's most endearing performance as the disillusioned Nicki who sadly watches her friend Jennifer lead her father astray...