Word: eccentricism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Irony serves to sharpen, and humor leaven, the mishaps that befall the book's eccentric families. Unrelentingly bleak, however, are the descriptions of cruelty to children, which are a hallmark of Gallant's stories in Home Truths. Indeed, with a mother like the matriarch in Saturday, there is no need...
The sale of Hughes has been surrounded by almost as much mystery as the life of its founder, the eccentric multibillionaire who died in 1976 after hiding from public view for almost 20 years. Sealed bids had to be delivered by last Wednesday to Morgan Stanley, the New York investment...
Ronis said that his request hasn't disturbed his dormmates greatly, adding. "I guess they view me as a bit eccentric for doing a play in my room, and I suppose I am."
Far more interesting than the plot, however, is the background Eberstadt provides for each character, the fleeting situations, and the host of minor characters with their quick and pointed dialogue. She has a flair for constructing detailed, exotic scenarios which somehow manage to seem plausible without losing any of their...
Clare wakes up unable to move her legs but with a new ability to see an ancestor's ghost, who visits her in the hospital and takes her on trips outside her body. Meanwhile, her level-headed parents, Hal and Helen, her nephew Davy and an as ortment of eccentric...