Word: gail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With A Mother and Two Daughters (1982), her fifth novel, Gail Godwin joined that select circle of critically praised authors who have also produced bestsellers. This happy event entitled her longtime admirers to mixed emotions. While it is pleasurable to see a favored writer receive the success she deserves, it is irksome to realize that membership in a small club of discriminating readers has suddenly been thrown open to multitudes. If so many people, the reasoning follows, liked Godwin's loose, loving chronicle of three plucky females, then maybe we should find it disappointing. And whom will she write...
...clumsy as well as sanctimonious. The trouble is that many will mistake it for the truth. The film's verdict will most likely stand unchallenged; unless The Atlanta Child Murders draws ratings on the order of Roots, TV will not plow this ground again. "What frightens me," says Gail Epstein, who reported on the case for the Atlanta Constitution, "is that people across America will see the movie and think that this is what really happened." If so, it will be the Atlanta tragedy's saddest footnote...
...Cyndy Austrian (H) d Gail McCarthy...
...Jessica Gail Drachman Cabot...
...Jessica Gail Drachman Cabot...