Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maybe he did, too, because I only saw him one other time before I saw him dead at his funeral--he was hit by a post office truck in a Florida crosswalk on his way to Disney World--and that one other time I saw him was when Aunt Barbara got married to a man who owned a soda-bottling company...
...older brother Antoine, who likes explaining things as much as Cat likes asking questions. When Antoine shoots three German officers and runs away to join the maquis, the Gestapo questions and deports his parents. Cat reels with uncomprehending shock. He runs away from the smug, bourgeois household of his aunt and uncle and embarks on a series of adventures in hope of finding his brother...
...book are interrupted by long sections during which Maspero has Cat meditate on what he has learned and who he has become. None of these sections quite rings true--they are too pat and preachy, as in Cat's huffy rejection of the pallid values of his aunt and uncle...
Mario Vargas Llosa's autobiographical novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter amorously paired a young man with an older woman. In The Perpetual Orgy, a highly original work of nonfiction, part literary testament and part critical study of Madame Bovary, the author confesses to carrying a torch for the novel's heroine, soon to be 130. Peru's Vargas Llosa belongs to a long line of Emma Bovary's professional admirers. Gustave Flaubert's scandalous character has vamped the imaginations and intellects of writers from Baudelaire to Woody Allen, whose l971 short story The Kugelmass Episode conjures a contemporary character...
...show's tension grows from the boring circumstances surrounding Ken's departure for Indochina and his friends departure for Europe, and the fact that Ken wants to sell the farm and get out of town. Jed, though, is as attached to the farm as he is to Ken, and Aunt Sally (Ellen Bledsoe) wants to spread her husband's ashes on the property, but won't if Ken sells...