Word: eunuchoid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journey to nowhere, Sophie caroms off a number of archetypes over-familiar to readers of the urban novel: eunuchoid males, knife-edged women's libertarians, garrulous old leftists, jittery blacks. To make Sophie's affliction even more puzzling, she is given an external symbol-a bite by a cat that may or may not be rabid. Is the plague external? Or does it lie within...
...harder to acknowledge mistakes than to perpetuate them. His slow evocation of a vanished England is evident in the smallest vignette. For example: the town milquetoast (Norman Bird) appears at a charity show, blazes to life for one salacious song, then returns-almost with relief-to his eunuchoid role...
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