Word: cruz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Burnt Water was written over the years of 1954-80, "as satellites around certain novels so they have something of the quality of the novel I was writing at the time. One can therefore find similarities to such novels as Aura, A Change of Skin, The Death of Artemio Cruz in these stories...
...holds a profesorship at the University of California at Santa Cruz and lives in a house with a swimming pool, overlooking Monterey Bay near San Fransisco...
...Some people may think I left just for the weather and the good life, but the overriding factors were definitely the intellectual attractions here at Santa Cruz," Pettigrew says...
...fact, several of Pettigrew's close colleagues and former students from Harvard's are now at Santa Cruz. "Harvard was very good to me," he says, "but life here is much easier--there are no attacks upon us. I got tired of academic fights...
Although Santa Cruz emphasizes teaching more than Harvard, Pettigrew adds that "I'm getting more of my own work done here than I ever did at Harvard, where research is so stressed...