Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sounds like a good book. Sounds like unconventional characters struggling to survive in a steadfastly conventional world. This is Marge Piercy's latest novel, Summer People...
...members of the media are not the only ones whose semiconscious, racist values are exposed and rejected in this provocative book. In separate chapters, the assertions that Blacks can't swim and lack the necessities to manage or own teams are dismissed with stories about an all-Black swimming club in Cleveland and the only Black-owned minor league franchise in history. There are also chapters about the dearth of Black catchers in baseball and the stereotype of Latin players as hot-blooded...
...book, although beautifully written, is a tease. And because the reader knows the outcome of the story from the beginning, the tease itself is a disappointment...
...readers of Bass's stories (collected this year in The Watch) can attest, he also knows how to write; and like his oil witchery, this gift is % extravagant and natural. His new book is based on notebook jottings he kept for about three years, 1984-87, chasing a quarry that was "shy here, coy there, blatant elsewhere." His father, another petroleum geologist, complained after reading Oil Notes that he didn't learn much from it about finding oil, but to the uninitiated it richly reveals just what that line of work involves. There is no better conversation, spoken or written...
...later book, The Second Stage, Friedan would call the syndrome suffered by this new generation of women the "I'm not a feminist but" disease. Women expected to be doctors, or CEOs, or astronauts, expected equal wages and compassionate employers, expected reproductive freedom as if that was the way it had always been. They believed that the setbacks they suffered as women were personal, not political...