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...life of the Hunter family in a shabby patch of North London, the novel's real vitality lies in the relationship between twin sisters Georgia and Bessi. Evans has a sharp eye for the quotidian charms - the strawberry-scented beanbag chairs and baked-bean sandwiches - of the girls' childhood in "the wilderness of Neasden." School friends quickly develop a written classification system to tell the sisters apart, but the twins remain oddities; classmates can't even spell Bessi's name right: "Georgia has big ears, Bessie don't." But the twins' suburban idyll is sometimes disturbed by the fear that...
...Since childhood, Constantine has been able to recognize the ghoulish “half-breeds,” who, as hybrid demon-human creatures, can cross the border between heaven and hell and upset “the balance” between God and Satan’s bid for human souls. Young Constantine’s terrifying visions classify him as a psycho. As a result of the trauma of his visions and equally horrific “therapy,” he commits suicide...
...It’s a childhood event that everyone loves,” said Dunster resident Nnanenye N. Okochi ’06 of the game. “It’s a way of reliving your childhood memories...
Moxon confessed that he was all set on majoring in English in Providence and staying far away from the sport that dominated his childhood. He had a thoughtful, comely girlfriend, loved to read and was leaving all remnants of Texas and Kilmer—with whom he reportedly had a rocky relationship—for good...
While De-Loused’s spiraling story line centered on the fictionalized dreams spawned by tormented childhood friend Julio Venegas’s time in a coma, Frances the Mute is purportedly based on a diary discovered and then continued in a similarly troubled vein by Jeremy Ward, the former Mars Volta bandmember who died of a drug overdose...