Word: boatwrights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Part of the problem may be that Reardon, attempting to be original, has eschewed using the vengeful, violent Jean--who in her viciousness somewhat resembles the protagonist of Bastard, Ruth Anne Boatwright--as the narrator, instead picking her ineffectual brother Ray. This could have been an interesting switch in points of view, and the structure of the novel, as a series of flashbacks illuminating the present-day situation, could have worked...
...rambling narrative. To pull a novel off with a hero or heroine essentially isolated from society, the protagonist has to be vivid and interesting, which is why this novel suffers by any comparison to Bastard out of Carolina or any other tale of an abusive childhood. While Ruth Anne Boatwright remains in the reader's memory, Ray Johnson is easily forgotten, with only the horrible tales of abuse to vaguely haunt the readers, tales of suffering with blank-faced victims at the center...
...resurrection of the priest who is referred to in hushed whispers as "the man whose name we cannot speak." In villages throughout the country, prayers are offered in the churches each Sunday for the lifting of the embargo. "I would like to see the invasion," said Smith Elmont, a boatwright from the small coastal village of Luly. "We all want the Americans to come. Then there will be justice and we will live in peace...
...INFECTED BLOOD HAS BECOME PERHAPS THE most difficult of deadly weapons to control. Those who wield it often strike without warning or remorse. Parolee Terry Boatwright, facing accusations that he had raped and also injected his ex-girlfriend with his own tainted blood because he wanted her to know what it was like to live with HIV, shot himself to death during a standoff with Escambia County (Florida) sheriffs on Nov. 28. Two days later, a Portland, Oregon, judge sentenced Alberto Gonzalez to 113 months in prison for having unprotected sex with a 17-year-old girl last year...