Word: eliason
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fresh Meat/Warm Weather by Joyce Eliason. 145 pages. Harper & Row. $6.95. "How strange it is," the heroine of this fierce and finely tuned little novel is reminded, "that Mormons, like Jews, nurture that feeling of inferiority in themselves while still believing they are God's Chosen People." As the book progresses, that paradoxical condition becomes both a rankling irony and a saving strength...
...tells us everything, indeed, but her name. Yet anonymity seems much less a trick than an act of painful discretion by Joyce Eliason. Her book, a first novel, is spare and direct, told in a series of quick sense impressions that spin out of each other like the grooves on a record. She seizes the phantom detail that makes a memory jump to life-the texture of a jacket fabric; a room in the Mormon temple; the last words, wrenching and absurd, spoken to her by her dying father: "I'm so hungry...