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Smith, a youthful farmhand, reported that an angel named Moroni had showed him some golden tablets that had been buried near Palmyra, N.Y. The tablets were in an unknown language, "reformed Egyptian hieroglyphics," and Smith could read them only by peering through two miraculous stones* that the angel gave him. The 522-page Book of Mormon declares that the New World's Indians were actually Jews who sailed from the Near East in the 6th century B.C., and that they were later visited by Jesus Christ after his resurrection...
...drudgery, Anna married a tough young vagabond named Big Karl whom she met at a barn dance. He promised freedom and adventure, but the dream went unrealized: for seven years she followed him up and down Norway, always adrift and usually starving. She worked at various times as a farmhand and lumberjack, only to watch him disappear and squander her money...
...Person is a complex and appalling tragedy in which country people who think of themselves as hardy "survivors," destroy their own world rather than absorb a Polish refugee who is himself simply trying to survive. Few writers mix comedy and cruelty more offhandedly or more effectively. Witness a redneck farmhand's wife contemplating the Polish family's broken English: "They can't talk. You reckon they'll know what colors even is?" As her hostile speculations grow deadlier, she recalls a newsreel showing bodies stacked in a concentration camp, then thinks of -"ten billion of them...
...that ultimate answers are beyond reach; Gass puts his faith in the structure of his prose and the intense physicality of his words. Death imagery crackles through these pages like winter wind through a cornfield, yet the characters have exceptional vitality. A youth watches with unblinking fascination as a farmhand tries to knead life back into a child who is "froze like a pump." A housewife sees beauty in the configurations of dead roaches. In the title story, an intricate prose poem about a small Midwestern town, windows are graves, asphalt crumbles, maples are decapitated to make way for electric...
...were arrested for disagreeing with party policy. The rank-and-file Cubans are much subtler in their opposition. Some scribble graffiti on restroom walls ("Down With Russian Imperialism," "Fidel, Traitor"). Others indulge in a little spur-of-the-moment sabotage. Sailors or railroad men urinate in bulk sugar; a farmhand may toss a wrench into a sugar-cane harvester...