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Novelists reveal themselves as performers, or shamans, or unloved children, or observers of bugs through microscopes. The Australian writer Thomas Keneally is a builder, a gifted, painstaking maker of books. After 20 novels, including Schindler's List and A Victim of the Aurora, a reader imagines him rummaging through his barn for old beams and bricks stored years before and never used. Stories, perhaps, told by his grandparents, who were storekeepers in Australia's Macleay River Valley. He sorts the tales, considers which can still bear weight, begins to sketch a plan for A River Town (Doubleday; 324 pages...
...Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) last week nominated longtime community activist and consensus-builder Geneva T. Malenfant as the organization's new president...
John Henry is the quintessential railroad builder. We first see him competing against a spike-driving machine. Standing on a rock above the crowd, he laughs confidently in the face of their disbelief at his prowess. Thankfully, Henry, as one of the few black popular legends, is neither a politically correct icon nor a cardboard character, drained of his ethnicity. He is one of the group, yet with his own story. When Henry talks with Daniel about father-son relationships, he speaks wistfully of his own father, sold downriver because he was a slave...
...attention that would have served a dozen siblings, and the enormous coziness and safety of an indulged small boy in an upper-middle-class Victorian household was what he evoked years later in the poems of A Child's Garden of Verses. His father Thomas was a mighty builder of lighthouses and breakwaters, and the future author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped saw more of the sea than most Scottish boys. His mother Maggie was a beloved invalid herself, and most of the boy's care was taken over by a kindly but ferociously religious nurse...
...Brady that business is also done a little differently now--most gun dealers are frequently on the phone, calling state agents for a background check on every would-be purchaser. Not all the gun dealers, however. At the sales tables of unlicensed sellers like Larry Snyder, a Denver home builder and gun fancier, you don't see phones. He does ``private-party sales,'' which don't require sales records or background checks. For unlicensed sellers, not much has changed. ``People are buying as many guns as ever,'' Snyder says with a shrug...