Word: barron
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Chronology is decidedly unlinear in the novel, with different periods of the past flashing in and out as they relate to the events of the present. The impetus of his memory--and memory does comprise the bulk of the novel--is a series of articles by the journalist Esme Barron (later Esme Gilmartin--she marries Conor, Brocky's son) about old Toronto and for which she is interviewing Hullah. This narrative strand, the present, which brings about the memory aspect of the novel, continues on its own for years. Brocky, Charlie, and Hullah are middle-aged...
...philosophy, which will be suspiciously familiar to devotees of Mr. Davies. Doctors are kinds of priests and priests are kinds of doctors. Priests are kinds of poets as well, and Dr. Hullah begins to think about writing his great "Anatomy of Fiction." What else could we expect? Esme Barron and Conor Gilmartin, as well as Hugh McWearie, reappear from Davies' last novel, Murther and Walking Spirits; old Dunstan Ramsey steps out of The Deptford Trilogy for rather a lengthy visit, joined as well by his friend Boy Stanton (referred to in passing and not named, though the description matches...
Hogue pled guilty that December to one count of larceny over $250. Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Robert Barron sentenced him to one year in prison, with an additional three-year suspended sentence tacked...
...interview last week, Lauren said Swing aims for the lowa factory worker as much as the college-educated preppie. "Chris Barron (the Spin Doctors' lead singer whom the magazine profiled in its first issue) lives on a farm in Washington," he offers...
...thanks to groundbreaking work in chemical biology Schreiber is "one of the leaders in modern organic chemistry in the U.S., if not the world,:" Barron says...