Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua--Sam Nesley Hall, a self-described freedom fighter and brother of a U.S. congressman, will be released within hours because the government decided not to press spy charges, the state-run radio station said Tuesday...
Froelich arrived in the Nicaraguan capital Monday to arrange local counsel for the prisoner, who is a brother of Rep. Tony Hall (D-Ohio...
...Washington, Rep. Tony Hall said in a statement, "I am grateful to the Nicaraguan government for promising to release my brother, and I look forward to seeing him when this trauma is all over...
...title indicates, this latest volume in the trilogy about the author Nathan Zuckerman--who no doubt is modeled somewhat after Roth--is a story about opposing lives. First there is the opposition between Nathan and his brother Henry, a successful suburban dentist in South Orange, New Jersey. Then there is the counterlife that Henry decides to live in Israel and the counterlife that Nathan decides to live in England. The interaction between these various worlds and people provides the canvas on which Roth paints his vision of his Jewishness...
Roth is alienated both from the old country of Eastern Europe that spawned his immigrant parents and from the pleasant diaspora, non-tenemant nest that American Jews have created for themselves. The novel's homebase is this world. Nathan lives in New York City and his brother in South Orange, a suburb of Newark, where the two brothers grew up. Roth has written about these places before. His first great novel, Goodbye, Columbus, takes place in Irvington, New Jersey, a city that borders on Newark. Roth himself grew up in Newark and Irvington...