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...events are clear. Everything in the novel has a hard factual edge. Everything sounds reported, even what must be pure speculation. When the characters descend into dialect or private associations, DeLillo often lets his narrative voice accompany them, but this is not a relaxation of his distant, researched style. The diction or the sentence structure may change, but the tone never slips; DeLillo remains detached...
...Advent Christian church that his father and mother Joy, 36, helped build, David joins his brother Stephen, 7, and his sister Nancy, 13, in a Bible class. Later in the day, the family drives an hour and 15 minutes to another Advent Christian church at the top of a distant and twisting hollow. David's parents, who are licensed to preach, lead the service, which lasts nearly two hours...
After Larry was laid off last winter, he began cooking, cleaning and putting the three children to bed. To help out with expenses, Joy took a job selling + coupons for photographs door to door. She drives to distant hollows, logging nearly 1,800 miles during the five or six days she works each week. She takes in about $240 a week before taxes and expenses, barely breaking even after car repairs and other costs. Now Larry thinks about heading north to look for work in a factory...
...that happy though ever distant day when David moves into his new house, one item will surely go with him. It is the mounted head of the nine-point buck he and his father shot last fall. David remembers: "We came to skin the deer, and Dad looks at it and says, 'I'm going to have that mounted.' Then he was tearin' the skin off, and we found where I had shot it real close to the tail where it went through the backbone and came out the other side. And Dad says, 'If you goin' to shoot...
While this may be an ambitious goal, that does not deter advocates of the handicapped, who are not easily discouraged and are well aware of the potential for a fully accessible society in the not-too-distant future...