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...first blush of the approaching dawn was barely visible as Captain Chun nosed his craft back into the Alaskan sky at 10 a.m. (4 a.m. in Anchorage). He set off on "Jet Route 501," a southwesterly course along the Aleutian Islands and one of five commonly traveled flight paths at the start of the 3,800-mile run to Seoul. A checkpoint Bethel, about 340 miles wes of Anchorage, he would switch to what pilots call "Red Route 20," the most northerly and direct of the internationally recognized courses to Tokyo and Seoul. It would take him off the Soviet...
While some kitties have been tormented, up to 500 others each week have been abducted by teams of efficient criminals. Stealing up on their prey at break of dawn and using either tranquilizers or tantalizing goodies, the catnapers spirit the animals away to clinical experimenters, who require some 300 specimens each day. At $20 a cat, a resourceful thief can earn $50,000 a year...
...casually cruel lover are all analysts, occupying a narrow world whose poles are the brownstones bordering Central Park and the beaches of the Hamptons. The doctor is preoccupied by a frequently tedious midlife crisis that seems trifling and ill motivated by comparison with the traumas of her benumbed patient. Dawn was born to a catatonic, who committed suicide when her child was an infant, and a male homosexual, who died in a boating accident a year later. She has been raised by a leathery lesbian aunt and her feminine girlfriend, whom the child called Daddy and Mommy. (To aggravate matters...
...route, Rossner tosses off a number of saline one-liners ("Women looked at a gray-haired man and saw Father; men looked at a gray-haired woman and ran from death"). But August has two profound flaws. The narrative, which starts out like a detective story, is a tease: Dawn never arrives at a stunning moment of self-realization; instead, the treatment just winds down haphazardly and stops. Worse, Rossner cannot seem to decide what kind of book she is writing. At moments she appears to strive for the heartfelt tone of Judith Guest in Ordinary People; a few sentences...
Many of the characters are shrewdly if harshly drawn stereotypes. Only Dawn is wholly likable, and her situation is so extreme that the reader pays a credulity tax with almost every chapter. Dr. Shinefeld, effective as a therapist, is a lulu of a loser as a woman. Ressner's treatment suggests that what another writer called the Impossible Profession is still beyond easy analysis. -By William A. Henry...