Word: brinson
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...inappropriate relationship" is what Clinton called it; a shameful disgrace to the office of President of the U.S. is what it is. THOMAS L. BRINSON New Bern...
Hence the narrator Joe Brinson looks back to the year 1960, when he was 16 and his parents were newly arrived in Great Falls, Mont., hoping to benefit somehow from an oil boom in the area. Dwarfed like everyone else by the vast ! empty spaces, they find instead the same marginal isolation they have encountered elsewhere. Jerry, the father, is a golf instructor at the local country club until he is fired on the probably unwarranted suspicion of stealing. With her husband suddenly out of work, Jean, the mother, takes a job giving swimming lessons. As Joe gets used...
...parents have been staging for years. "We haven't been very intimate lately," his mother confides about her relationship with his father. "You might as well hear that." Why should he hear that? To prepare him for the appearance of Warren Miller, a local rich man, in the Brinson home one afternoon when Joe gets back from school...
...this book -- after Jerry Brinson comes back from the fire to find his domestic life in ashes, after a reflexive, ineffectual act of violence -- an early remark from father to son has taken on new significance: "You have a clear mind, Joe. Nothing bad will happen to you." That does not mean what it literally seems to say. Nothing bad will happen to Joe, not because he is immune to misfortune but because he has the capacity to endure -- by understanding -- everything...