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Although golf, in my mind, was by no means the equal of rasslin,' I still agreed to make the hour and a half trip to Augusta with my step-father and her the next morning. After all, I'd be back in plenty of time for the main event--the wrestling...
...Augusta National by mid-morning, and after a long search for a parking place, my mom and I made our way inside the gates of the legendary club...
Angel Angel is told from the alternating points of view of Augusta and her two twentyish sons Mathew and Henry, aimless young men who want to rouse their mother out of her torpor but haven't the emotional strength. It will take an outsider to revive this troubled lot, and she arrives in the form of Bette Mack, a taciturn beauty in pink sneakers as drawn to the Irises as they are to her. Stevens surrounds Bette with an excess of winged imagery to indicate that she is the savior who will lift the Irises from their aggrieved inertia...
...story begins as Augusta Iris decides to take to her bed indefinitely. Her husband has left her for another woman, and she is exhausted not only from the pain of his abandonment but also from a lifetime of unfulfilled desire. It is a challenge to portray a forsaken woman in a way that evokes genuine sympathy; but Stevens manages, conveying Augusta's sadness with a knowing honesty reminiscent of Edna O'Brien. Augusta cannot bear thoughts of her husband's existing in the world without her. "It was the fact that he wasn't dead that worked me like...
...Viking; 211 pages; $19.95) This first novel by April Stevens is about the Iris family in a nameless Connecticut hamlet. Augusta Iris is a sad woman, who, abandoned by her husband, can't bear the thought of him living without her. The story is told from alternating points of view, between Augusta and her two sons who unsuccessfully try to shake their mother's sadness. Ultimately, they manage to get on with their lives, thanks to an outsider. TIME book reviewer Ginia Bellafante calls the book an "intelligent and moving first novel" with successful portrayals of characters who "seem withered...