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...world calls brains"; Ben will "get out of this cave first." He will play Abel to Willie's Cain, and also be a deadly left-handed hitter, deadly that when, years later, he slams a teammate's pitch into a dark summer night on a date, he hits Clare Bishop in the forehead and she goes into a coma...
...Clare wakes up unable to move her legs but with a new ability to see an ancestor's ghost, who visits her in the hospital and takes her on trips outside her body. Meanwhile, her level-headed parents, Hal and Helen, her nephew Davy and an as ortment of eccentric relatives and neighbors try to cook up cures for her paralysis. A temporary remedy comes in the force of--yes, Ben, overwhelmed by guilt, and then by Clare...
...Aubreys have been taken up by Mr. Morpurgo, a generous Jewish millionaire who admired and employed the errant head of their household. Mother Clare, once a celebrated pianist praised by Brahms, no longer has to cope with dunning tradespeople invading her house in a suburb of South London. Eldest Daughter Cordelia has finally given up the violin, much to the relief of her mother and siblings, who believe, as Rose, the narrator, says, that "to play an instrument badly was as shameful as any crime short of murder." Rose and her twin sister Mary practice the piano daily and dream...
...like (Santa) to give a new hegemony to Professor Clare Dalton at the Law School." Dalton, the elves have learned, is Reich's wife...
...Clare Howard Worthing, England...