Word: canadas
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...desperate need of cash. It must find some way to survive until 1987, , when a new line of midsize vehicles is scheduled to be turned out at a plant being built in Canada at Brampton, Ont. For now, the biggest thing AMC has going for it is its popular Jeep. The company in the fall will introduce a Jeep pickup truck. AMC cannot turn to its partner and part owner, French automaker Renault, for help. Renault is in even worse shape. It lost $1.4 billion last year...
Gandhi has announced he will visit the U.S. as planned. Meanwhile, Indian authorities and Interpol are investigating links between the alleged Sikh terrorists in the U.S. and extremists in Canada, Europe and India...
Most of the 16 stories are set in the Canada of the 1930s and 1940s, an era of lingering Victorianism when citizens flouted convention at their risk. A compelling case is the French-Canadian family in Saturday. Fiercely anticlerical, the husband and wife send their children to English-Canadian schools, where the Roman Catholic Church cannot reach them. This seems to result in an estrangement between parents and offspring. The girls marry English Canadians: "the two Bobs, the Don, the Ian, and the last one -- Keith, or Ken?" Their bemused father cannot tell them apart at family gatherings...
...leaven, the mishaps that befall the book's eccentric families. Unrelentingly bleak, however, are the descriptions of cruelty to children, which are a hallmark of Gallant's stories in Home Truths. Indeed, with a mother like the matriarch in Saturday, there is no need to blame family tensions on Canada's ethnic problems. "She told each of her five daughters as they grew up that they were conceived in horror; that she could have left them in their hospital cots and not looked back, so sickened was she by their limp spines and the autumn smell of their hair...
Linnet arrives in Montreal during World War II, alone and with $5 in her purse. As she describes her prospects, "My only commercial asset was that I knew French, but French was of no professional use to anyone in Canada then -- not even to French Canadians; one might as well have been fluent in Pushtu." Still, she perseveres, ultimately finds a job on a local newspaper and sets out to become a writer, much as the author herself did in the late 1940s. Such determination and pluck are rare among Gallant's outcast characters. When the girl's native country...