Word: goverance
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...Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (3, last week) 2. A Shade of Difference, Drury (1) 3. Seven Days in May,. Knebel and Bailey (2) 4. Ship of Fools, Porter (4) 5. Genius, Dennis (6) 6. $100 Misunderstanding, Gover 7. The Prize, Wallace (9) 8. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Jackson 9. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (8) 10. Where Love Has Gone, Robbins...
Naturally, JC never understands Kitten. Readers, making their way through her frantic, phonetic dialect, in which breathtaking obscenities are so pervasive that they soon cease to shock, will at first sympathize with him. But Author Gover is gleefully staging the classic confrontation between educated fool and ignorant sage. Even in broken English, Kitten soon turns out to be a lot smarter and pleasanter than JC. When he decides to steal her car and keep it until she returns the money, he describes the move "as a last recourse to retaliatory capability, humanely applied as persuasion rather than force...
...HUNDRED DOLLAR MISUNDERSTANDING (192 pp.)-Robert Gover-Grove...