Word: awful
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When asked about his own reportedly paltry get-out-the-vote effort and McAuliffe's out-of-town endorsements, Deeds, in his usual aw-shucks persona, stammered out: "I can't rattle that stuff off the top of my head. There's another candidate that can do that. But I can tell you that I've had people working hard for weeks and for months ... You know the other night in Charlottesville, I had four former mayors and a vice mayor all making calls...
Malaysian writer Tash Aw Won a 2005 Whitbread Book Award for his debut offering The Harmony Silk Factory, and his follow-up does not disappoint. An unusually braided novel, Map of the Invisible World condenses the prolonged, troubled birth of an independent Indonesia into a complex drama of private relationships...
...While Aw's prose remains as luminous as in his debut novel - evoking a wonderfully textured world of streets and shantytowns - there is greater emotional heft in this new work. The tender relationship of the brothers before they are separated, and their sundering, is told in a timed-release fashion, reaching an unbearably moving climax. If there is a sag in the middle of the novel brought about by a too expository account of Indonesian politics, it is more than redeemed by the way Aw debunks every expectation one has of the postcolonial novel: questions of identity and belonging...
...Aw, shucks, flyby’s ego granted Doug’s group points for this response...
...women settle for these men if they know they aren't the right fit? Davilman: That's the thing - I don't know. You don't walk into a store and see a broken toaster and go, "Aw, well, when I get it home, it will start working." You don't go, "Oh, that dress - the sleeve is falling off. But I can fix it at home." No, you want a dress that fits. You want a toaster that works. But women - and I guess men too - are so willing to take the broken one. (Watch a video about dating...