Word: canine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prejudice, his own and other people's: he met transcriptionists who would run away so as not to have to type up his examinations of gay patients, and dentists who would refuse to see unmarried men. In the tradition of the best doctor-writers, from Somerset Maugham to Ethan Canin, Verghese took it all down with a fine mix of compassion and precision, understanding not only why men suffer but how they feel...
Books: Ethan Canin plumbs man-to-man combat...
...between the sexes does not particularly concern Ethan Canin. While other writers chronicle that battle, as well as the myriad conflicts that ignite female relationships, Canin stalks the less traveled turf -- at home, at work and at play -- where men wage undeclared hostilities against one another. In The Palace Thief (Random House; 205 pages; $21), a superb collection of four novellas, as in his acclaimed earlier fiction (Emperor of the Air, Blue River), Canin also reminds us of a more interior battle: the struggle among men to discover who they really...
Some readers will object that the female supporting characters are little more than shadows, some of them close to stereotype (Jewish Mother, Compulsive Shopper, Girl from the Wrong Side of the Tracks). But this should not prevent Canin from becoming required reading in Women's Studies 101. Above all, his wise stories are concerned with a subject common to both genders: the startling consequences of feeling...
Tragically, this is not always the case. Some authors fail to impress in person. Others perform satisfactorily in this respect. The scrumptious Ethan Canin, for example, unfailingly attracts hordes of female fans to readings-a small fact which does not escape his publisher...