Word: fitzpatricks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...English, Brown University), J.R. Hall (English, Notre Dame), Elizabeth Napier (English, University of Virginia), Keith Morgan (Fine Arts, Brown University), Charles Briggs (Folklore and Mythology, University of Chicago), Michael Jennings (German, University of Virginia), John T. Kneebone (History, University of Virginia), James M. Weiss (History, University of Chicago), Ellen Fitzpatrick (History of American Civilization, Brandeis University), Misia Landau (History of Science, Yale University), and Sima Godfrey (Romance Languages, Cornell University...
...Fantich disappeared, along with a woman who ran a jewelry store, which Fantich owned, and an apparently innocent bystander, Dr. William Fitzpatrick. Police picked up Wilkerson for questioning. While he was in custody, all three missing persons were shot and buried about 100 miles west of Houston. From testimony pieced together from a variety of sources, police found the bodies and deduced that the victims were part of an extortion and kidnaping scheme that Wilkerson had masterminded. While Wilkerson owned up to the plot, he denied any involvement in the murders. Prosecutor Don Stricklin scoffs at this: "He could have...
...title role is taken by Patrick Fitzpatrick, no ordinary ranch hand. Sure, he breaks broncs and gets violently drunk. But he also reads Thucydides, has a philologist's loathing for the bad grammar of his colleagues, and shops for mushrooms like Paul Bocuse. He values the purity and simplicity of Western life but rarely enjoys it. Patrick is too busy feeling superior to cowboys, real and rhinestone. Haunted by what he calls "sadness-for-no-reason," this Hamlet in mule-ear boots admires only one thing: horses. Clopping into the sunset on a favorite mare, he exults privately...
...Fitzpatrick returns to the family ranch after a stint as a NATO tank captain patroling the Berlin Wall. Borders are just as tense back home. His cantankerous grandfather goes on living and seething beyond his time; a sister with "insufficient resistance to pain of every kind" opts for the lesser agony of suicide. The lonesome cowboy finds purpose only in pursuing Claire, the icy wife of a "vivid . . . piercey-bright, oilman feisty" pseudo-patrón named Tio. The result is McGuane's standard mano á mano struggle in which the prize is less significant than the battle itself...
...gone before, and the final epiphany-the revelation that there is no revelation-is too dim to illuminate Nobody's Angel. McGuane has not so much made the Old West new as buried many of the romantic myths under a modern veneer of laconic prose and cowboy Weltschmerz. Fitzpatrick, and apparently McGuane, believes that quadrupeds do not disappoint like bipeds. The trouble is, novels with more affection for the equine than the human tend to gallop only for a short stretch. And then, all too frequently, they pull up lame. -By Richard Stengel