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A compelling blend of substantial issues and engaging action, Floating is a novel about a woman, Ruby, who falls in love with her husband's brother while her husband is away in jail. Addressing the difficult issues of an individual's responsibility to her family, to her friends and to...
Certainly, there are a few awkward moments. The writing feels somewhat uncertain at times, as if the author is searching for a few lines for the right words to express an emotion and then gives up and moves on, having stated but not shown the emotions involved.
In lesser degrees the entire productionwrestles with this problem. Not all of it can beattributed to the production, as Albee providessome extended metaphors and angry language whichalienate the audience. The effect is political.Instead of feeling moved closed to tears by Jack'srejection from the white hospital, the hyperboleof emotion and...
There was a moment during last week's emotion-filled White House reception for Nelson Mandela when I felt as if I had traveled back in time. It came when the Rev. Bernice King, who looks and sounds remarkably like her sainted father Martin Luther King Jr., likened Bill Clinton...
John Edgar Wideman subtitles his eighth novel, Two Cities (Houghton Mifflin; 242 pages; $24), "A Love Story," but his version of that familiar genre seems at times the antithesis of standard romance. Robert Jones, 50, meets Kassima, 35, at a dance club, and she eventually invites him back to her...