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...solitude that afflicted her before she met him. Initially unsure of his reaction to her, Wharton writes: My poor 'ame close' barred its shutters and bolted its doors again, and the dust gathered and the cobwebs thickened in the empty rooms, where for a moment I had heard an echo. Later, "now deeply, helplessly in love," she finds her personality being "swept away" by his, and wonders with fright, in Lewis's words, "whether it might not be the destiny of women to find their individuality blotted out by love...
...white, lush Cajun greens. But mostly a million browns-browns that dwarf humans in the bulk of an industrial life that has left them out. The empty oyster-processing factory where Bronson fights among discarded shells is piled with hues of lifelessness; a shoeshine and a buck-and-wing echo eerily in a world where people only gather in out-of-the-way huddles in abandoned workplaces to watch powerful men without jobs try to kill each other for money...
...though, I'm not going to be sucked down into a massive winter depression. I've got a sixth game of a World Series to keep me going. And all winter long I'll be able to hear the echo of 35,000 people cheering on every corkscrew delivery of Luis ("The fans make me pitch better than I can do") Tiant...
...were simply a literal send-up of Horatio Alger stories, Gaddis' ironies would be heavy and obvious. But his conception is pure and highly original. The dung-beetle logic of the young JR, the rationalizations of the go-getters and the stifled rage of the gotten echo long after the last line of this profoundly indignant novel...
...rural Illinois. After graduating from the University of Illinois in 1964, he began selling articles and short stories to magazines. His first novel, What I'm Going to Do, I Think (1969) was an eerie portrait of modern marriage and its betrayals. (It was, perhaps, a pre-echo of his pending divorce.) The book won wide praise and whetted critical interest in this second work, which has been appearing in snippets for nearly ten years. If the fully assembled fiction is not the magnum opus that some had anticipated, its local colors and in delible miniatures more than justify...