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...Wedge family tries to hide the play from book-burning Cotton Mather types. Centuries later, the Wedges attempt to unearth the missing play, hoping to sell it and build a residential Wedge House. Antique bookseller Peter Fallon, the main character from Martin’s 1980 novel Back Bay, ties the narrative together as he helps the modern day Wedges on their search...
Martin began to write Back Bay, chronicling the fictional Peter Fallon’s quest to find a missing Paul Revere tea set stolen from the White House. Martin set up his now routine past-and-present structure, bringing the reader from 18th-century Boston to modern day chapter by chapter, chronicling six generations on their hunt for the missing silver. The book ends with an appropriately cinematic touch—Fallon blowing a hole into the side of a T subway tunnel to reveal a cache of hidden silver. “I thought, as I still...
...Back Bay made the New York Times bestseller list—and made the 29-year-old Martin a rising star. Twenty-four years later, the book is still in print...
...proposed amendment got a big push last week, and it is likely to get another in May, when pictures of lesbians kissing their brides will be broadcast round the world. (One caveat: there is still a slim chance that gay-marriage opponents in the Bay State--including G.O.P. Governor Mitt Romney--will find a way to stop the marriages before May. But the state's highest court is not likely to approve any delays, so stopping gay weddings would probably mean outright defiance of the court. Most observers don't think Romney would risk his future on an Orval Faubus...
...from the evolving civil war in the Western hemisphere's poorest nation could eventually be felt in Florida. Throughout the early 1990s, thousands of refugees made their way to U.S. shores to escape violence and repression in Haiti, and their initial incarceration at the U.S. military facility at Guantanamo Bay was an election issue in the Sunshine State in 1992. It was the flow of refugees following the 1991 coup that overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991 that eventually prompted the Clinton administration in 1994 to send in the troops...