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Continuing in the pattern of the past that prevented her from seeing the growing radicalization and discontent of her daughter, Charlotte remains unconscious to the realities around her in Boca Grande. She is so concerned with revising the past to fit the dream of a happy American life that she...
THE EFFECTIVENESS of this Greek chorus of thoughts is indicative of the whole of Didion's novel. Written with an exceptional ease and remarkable eye for detail A Book of Common Prayer is, like almost everything Didion writes, greater than its many parts. Didion is a journalist as well as...
The watch on the Rio Grande is a most crucial outpost in the ceaseless war of nerves with the illegal Mexican immigrants. Here they can be quickly apprehended and returned home with a minimum of fuss and expense. The problem is catching them, for they have as many escape routes...
Every night Lomblot stations two of his men on the river to guard a stretch 39 miles long. Their principal piece of equipment is a "people sniffer," an electronic sensing device developed to catch the prowling Viet Cong. Despite its name, the instrument actually detects the minute seismic vibrations caused...
Stretching some 58 miles along the Rio Grande lies Starr County, Texas, a barren land of sagebrush and mesquite trees. Most of its 20,000 inhabitants are Mexican-Americans who scrape together a living as stoop laborers during the melon-picking season. Yet in the past two or three years...