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Greenfeld's gold-chain demimonde no more represents all of Japan than Bret Easton Ellis' world of tan, designer-drug nihilists represents America. Like Ellis, Greenfeld sometimes comes close to succumbing to the brand-name hypnosis he wishes to satirize. Moreover, he never really explores the meaning of the rebellions he describes. Instead, he gives us a kind of up-to-the- minute CD: a collection of snappy, driving vignettes that show how the cutting edge draws blood...
...People come together here," said Melissa Brown, a sophomore at Stone-hill College in North Easton, Mass. "It's really a competition. Everyone is really laid back...
Cory, the son of Sandra and Wesley Genereux ofSouth Easton, is autistic and has engaged in boutsof violence towards himself and others since hewas little...
...woman "undreamed of in Puritan society," Hannah Easton is born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1670. She inherits her unconventional boldness of spirit from her mother who escapes a bloody Nipmuc insurrection by running into the night with her Nipmuc Indian lover. Hannah's foster family tries to inculcate her with the Puritan values of hard work and subdued deportment, but Hannah's legacy, resisting suppression, emerges in her lurid poetry and needle-work...
Mukherjee's true achievement in The Holder of the World, setting it apart from previous works, is her use of the character of Hannah Easton as a vehicle by which moments of public rather than private history are explored. So when Hannah is whisked away to England by a one-eyed adventurer--a man who quickly turns into an absentee husband--Mukherjee seizes an opportunity to illuminate the nebulous relationship between New England and Old England...