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...Goldenberg, soon to be Sam Gordon, paterfamilias, returns from World War II to his wife Eve and his two-year-old daughter Susan. He is a skilled electrician, a confirmed workaholic, and he provides his growing family with a new house on Long Island, N.Y., a Cadillac, a boat -- everything but a fatherly presence. When he is not puttering with a new speedboat, he is climbing through the ranks at the local Masonic temple. Eve, a former singer at Catskill resorts, raises her three daughters and son on the Don't-let-Daddy-know principle. The children say there were...
Katz conceived his book as a "saga of the sort usually found in novels," and that is what he delivers brilliantly. In a morbidly fascinating chapter for each year from 1945 to 1990, the Gordon daughters and son wander into every haunted house they catch a glimpse...
...third Gordon daughter, Sheila, experiments with LSD, marries her high school sweetheart, dumps him and begins a six-year course of psychotherapy. Ricky, who is gay, has a tormented childhood and suffers from LSD flashbacks and bulimia. A musician and composer, he is also a passionate believer in New Age fads, especially the healing powers of crystals. He has watched several friends die of AIDS and has no intention of finding out whether he is infected...
...know whether they're selling turkeys or winners," Albert F. Gordon '59, one of the University major donors, said of recent sale...
...brought a great team spirit to thisgroup," said Coach Gordon Graham. "I'm one of herbiggest fans...