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...forth yet another work of this kind - to spend a book pondering, as Nan does, the question, "Do you have to live a literary life to produce literary work?" - is risky indeed. Ha Jin's demotic prose is as smooth as Windexed glass, but A Free Life lacks the dark, propulsive verve of his earlier work. And in the end, Nan Wu is little more than another entry in the world's brimming catalog of literary pretenders...
...back in place right away. I told him that the nerve going to his strangely numb fingers was wrapped tightly around a jagged edge of broken bone, that every minute it stayed there increased the likelihood of permanent damage, maybe a palsied hand. His brilliant dark eyes understood immediately. He understood the time pressure, the risks and why I had to treat him right away, in the emergency room. Sasha nodded and said O.K. Then, so did Mom and Dad. I marveled at how these parents deferred to Sasha's judgment. They knew...
...true that Ringo is enraptured by a younger woman, but he's not trying to roll back the years to please his lady. His relationship with his 60-year-old wife, a former Bond girl, has been going strong since they met on a film set in 1980. The dark lenses are prescription, reveals his friend, the musician Keith Allison, but in other respects Ringo is simply dressing like the rock star he is, a charming and pampered idol who has rarely endured a cloudy day since alighting in tax exile in the principality of Monaco...
...holidays in the tropics, and occasionally - and with evident reluctance - visits his spread in the Surrey countryside, south of London. He'll be there later this month. "I'm going to England for Christmas with the kids," he says. "It's damp and it's cold and it's dark. I love the sun and the warmth, and that's how I choose to spend my life...
...cocaine and alcohol were reputed to be their downfall. Ringo says simply: "I was on my knees." Allison maintains that the treatment changed more about his friend than his habits. For a start, that's when Ringo's sun worship started. "We spent so many years in the dark, during what I refer to as 'the medicine years,'" says Allison. "The blinds were drawn and when the sun started coming up everybody was like a bunch of Draculas running for cover. Not any more. We both love the light...