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...lawyer representing a family the Cabots do not speak to. The man next to him is named Cogan, and Cogan is the man to keep your eye on in George V. Higgins' third novel about the Boston underworld. In The Friends of Eddie Coyle and The Digger's Game, drawing on his drastic experience as Assistant U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, Higgins followed a couple of very small cockroaches as they skittered every which way to elude the extermination man. In Cogan's Trade he sees the action from the other...
...Where did Digger Phelps coach before Notre, Dame, before that...
...only reason Andrew Wyeth and other painters of Americana have ignored Steve is because they don't know he exists. He is a priceless relic of northern Massachusetts--an Ipswich clam digger who awakens before the sun rises and spends his early morning hours plunging his hands into sand and surf in search of hardshelled fish...
...Digger 's Game, Higgins...
...BEST STORY of the lot, and the one which encompasses most of what Cheever has to say, is a straightforward narrative, "Artemis, The Honest Well-Digger." Artemis is the inarticulate American hero. He is naive, well-meaning and strong. He likes sex, and loves his work. Wells bring him close to water, which he sees as the stuff of life. "Water was man. Water was love. Water was water." As Artemis nears 30, complications ensue. He wants to marry the girl on oleomargarine packages, but he can't find her in real life. While digging wells for wasteful rich people...