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Only gradually does it become clear that the italicized passages contain the "real story": someone named John is writing these short stories in order to make sense of the loss of his lover, someone named Martin, to AIDS. The short stories we read emerge as one sustained cry of deflected...
As the book progresses and the narrative gains coherence, the purposes of Peck's structure becomes clearer. The stories express grief by talking around painful, precise facts; it's easier to imagine the way things might have been than to remember exactly the way they were. Is Beatrice John's...
Actress Audrey Hepburn, a spirit of regal grace, dies at 63
Face it, they've got your number. "Retirement Plan A: Uncle Winthrop dies and leaves you $50 million." Sound familiar? This typical desperate fantasy of anxious mid-lifers everywhere was the perfect setup for the recurring message in Aetna's campaign about the importance of financial planning: "Retirement Plan B...
Along the streets, we catch the haggard, unslept faces of the besieged, a glimpse of their trudging, cringing body English. Shops boarded up. The driver, who is, improbably, a Russian, pitches the Renault along, overrevving and popping the clutch, to the National Library. It is a splendid 19th century Moorish...