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...gains his freedom and becomes a slave master himself. How, the book asks, could a black man make another black man his property? Jones circles his subject warily rather than charging straight at it: the novel begins with Henry's death, then loops around to follow him from childhood. We meet Henry's former owner, who became his mentor, and his father, a good, dignified man who is horrified at what his son has become. We meet many of Henry's 33 slaves, including Moses, his moody, brooding overseer: "Moses had thought that it was already a strange world that...
Everything--and nothing. "I always thought one day I would write a story," says Jones, a shy, round-shouldered man with a sly, infectious smile. "The first line is, 'You never get over having been a child.'" He laughs, but there's still hurt there. Jones had a tough childhood: his father wasn't around, and his mother washed dishes and scrubbed floors to support him and his sister and brother, who is disabled. His mother never learned to read, and they moved 18 times in 18 years. Once a landlord took the windows out of their frames when...
From worries about terrorism to deadly viruses to glow-in-the-dark creatures, Atwood’s ideas for her book, she admits, are cribbed from the current climate. For example, the narrator spent his childhood in a gated community owned by his parents’ science lab, in which the schools, homes and parks are all controlled by corporate interests...
...your game to make this team this year,” Cameron says. “On the team now, there’s no one who hasn’t danced all their life. It’s been their sport throughout high school, throughout childhood...
Drina L. Chan ’06 has become notorious for her dirty little fetish, which has sent many a hook-up into feverish personal deliberations over the merit of remaining faithful to widely held mores of personal hygiene versus realizing a long-held childhood fantasy ingrained in those days of heightened scatological awareness prior to potty training. Things have gotten really down and dirty, however, since Chan got together with Chris Bryson ’05, whose sexual repertoire was similarly shaped by Psychology...