Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.--Jay Pandolfo scored on a backhander in close with 1:23 left in overtime to give the New Jersey Devils a 3-2 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes yesterday night...
...Montreal 7 9 2 16 43 526-5-0 1-4-2 1-3-1 Ottawa 6 6 3 15 43 41 3-4-1 3-2-2 1-2-1 Southeast W L T Pts GF GA Home Away Div Carolina 8 8 3 19 50 473-3-3 5-5-0 1-0-1 Florida 6 6 4 16 38 463-3-1 3-3-3 1-0-1 Washington 6 7 3 15 37 412-5-2 4-2-1 1-2-1 Tampa...
...Publishers Weekly blurb for the novel Billy Dead notes that it is "reminiscent of Dorothy Allison," and on the surface this comparison is very apt. Like Allison's most famous work, Bastard out of Carolina, Lisa Reardon's debut novel deals with the effect of abuse on the children of a working-class white family and is narrated by one of the children, Ray, now grown up. Ultimately, however, for various reasons Billy Dead is a weaker and less interesting work than its predecessor...
...skewed vision of the world and, what is worse, his sometimes hideously rambling narrative. To pull a novel off with a hero or heroine essentially isolated from society, the protagonist has to be vivid and interesting, which is why this novel suffers by any comparison to Bastard out of Carolina or any other tale of an abusive childhood. While Ruth Anne Boatwright remains in the reader's memory, Ray Johnson is easily forgotten, with only the horrible tales of abuse to vaguely haunt the readers, tales of suffering with blank-faced victims at the center...
Ottawa at Washington, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Carolina, 7 p.m. Toronto at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m. N.Y. Isles at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Edmntn. at Anaheim, 10:30 p.m. Phoenix at San Jose...