Word: communion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life, regretting the effects of the worldwide aviation he had pioneered ("Every year," he wrote in his journal, "transport planes seem to get more like subway trains"), he campaigned as an environmentalist, circling the world ceaselessly, traveling light, seeking out primitive peoples in an exercise of atavistic communion...
...sinking liner which darted over Busch Stadium's left-field wall gave Big Mac a moment of communion with the lofty ghosts of Roger Maris and The Bambino...
...learned. And grew up, calamitously and against long odds. Both achievements shine in a graceful sentence early in her story, as she explains her communion with unresponsive fish: "I had patience, the sort I suspect God has with people like me." Patience with her own demons came slowly. As a young woman, "a booze-sucking, pill-popping, dope-slamming druggie," she turned 18 in jail, jugged on a possession charge. She seems not to have known Grand-Papa Ernest well (and would say, no, no, not that Hemingway family, not me), though later she adored his younger brother, her great...
...sojourn in Spain is recounted with panache and subtlety in Arturo Perez-Reverte's The Seville Communion (Harcourt Brace; 375 pages; $24), one of those infrequent whodunits that transcend the genre. The investigating priest is soon dipping into an olla podrida involving cupidity, lost love and sudden deaths at the church that may or may not have been accidents. Among those defending the church is the imperious noblewoman Macarena Bruner, whose Carmen-like beauty disturbs the celibate priest. She's the estranged wife of a banker who faces financial ruin if a sneaky real estate deal that would raze...
...veteran TV journalist, Perez-Reverte is Spain's most popular author--understandably so. Besides its page-turning pace and vivid characters, The Seville Communion sensitively explores the lonely quest of priests and nuns for assurance in a world where God's voice is heard barely as a whisper, if at all. The novel's evocation of Seville's magic may well inspire readers to order round-trip tickets to an ancient city redolent of jasmine and orange blossoms...