Word: glocca
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...late on election night, the suits are up in their suites, brooding and trying to look confident, waiting for the Glocca Morra vote to roll in and save them, and Jesse is strutting tall turkey at his campaign headquarters at the racetrack, looking like everyone's nightmare of a brother-in-law, shaking his big fist, yelling, "We shocked the world!" and comparing himself to Muhammad Ali and the U.S. Olympic hockey team of 1980 that beat the Russians. All across Minnesota, the quiet, decent people who believe in Good Government and Working Together to Resolve Differences are leaning forward...
This is not realistic fiction; it's Glocca Morra with a boarded-up main street. Or maybe Yoknapatawpha lite. At its thinnest it seems more jokey than funny. Occasionally, it threatens to become patronizing. Most of the time it works, however, not so much because the author keeps things stirred up but because he persuades the reader to share his great, openhearted fondness for his ridiculous characters. A compact is signed, Russo saying something like, "O.K., yeah, Sully's being a bit of a jerk, but watch what he's going to do now . . ." Or, "Did you meet Vera...