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Where do events in Eastern Europe leave the Third World? Up the creek...
...small southern town of Rhymers Creek, the book has as its protagonist Lila Mae Bower Pietrowsky. Lila Mae is well-intentioned, a good Christian woman who believes she is leading her disordered life as best she can. Her husband has left her. Her mother is a meddling hypochondriac. Wellsley Coe, whom Lila Mae has admired since high school, has insulted her virtue by asking her to have sex with him. And she is shocked and disappointed to discover that half the staff in the convalescent home where she works is homosexual...
...Book of Marvels, like Leland's earlier work, Mean Time is set in "Little Dixie," in a town called Rhymers Creek. It tells the story of Lila Mae, a woman entranced by televangelists and a little befuddled with modern life...
...some livestock to the plutocrats Henry and John Jay Astor. On the last three days of the trip from Ohio to New York, Drew refused to let his cattle drink. Just before they clomped up to the weighing station, he let the animals slake their thirst at a shallow creek...
When the police fleet of ten helicopters suddenly appeared overhead at 6:30 a.m., one sentry ran to alert Escobar and others, while bodyguards opened fire with semiautomatic rifles. Escobar slipped away by running through a patch of wild cane, scuttling across a creek with planks laid over it and, finally, jumping into a speedboat and disappearing. A wide-scale ground and helicopter search failed to turn up Escobar, who is included on the U.S. Justice Department's list of the twelve most wanted Colombian drug traffickers...