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...even with all their prayers, the Nixons have lost two children in a way that has set the town on edge and led to disastrous encounters with the law. In 1991 their eight-year-old son Clayton died as the result of an ear infection treated only by prayer. The Nixons pleaded no contest to charges of involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child, and they were put on probation. Last week the Nixons were found guilty of the same charges in the death of their 16-year-old daughter Shannon, who fell into a diabetic coma after...
...party to celebrate the occasion. The first guests, Ken Gorman (Jed Silverstein '97) and wife Chris (Abigail H. Gray '99), arrive just in time to hear the sound of a gunshot. Upon rushing up to the bedroom, they discover that Charlie, for motives unknown, has shot himself in the ear. Myra is nowhere to be seen...
Despite generous reprieves of humor, dialogue that leaps directly from page to ear and a richly textured narrative about the lost world of the '40s and '50s, Roth never lets up on his Jersey Job. When, after five years, Swede tracks down his daughter, she is living as Mary Stoltz in a squalid room in crumbling downtown Newark. She is worse than dead: an unwashed, half-starved, self-styled member of the Jain religion who prattles about the murderous effect soap and water have on germs at the same time that she confesses having blown up three more people...
...came to light that he had fathered a daughter by a woman in Texas, news that did nothing to smooth relations with his (now estranged) wife. Morris consoled himself with a $2.5 million book advance. He remains a much quoted political analyst, one gamely attempting to reach the ear of a President who holds him at arm's length. It's a tricky position...
...John F. Kennedy: A Journey to Camelot by Paul Werth will be read by Sidney Poitier and Caroline Kennedy. Slightly less ritzy (intended, perhaps, to be played in Dodge pickups instead of Lexuses) is Waylon Jennings' rendition of Waylon: An Autobiography. To those who scoff at such books as "ear candy," Seth D. Gershel, publisher of Simon & Schuster Audio, has a snappy answer: "If you'd rather be counting from 1 to 10 over and over again while driving, that's your preference...