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...rain or wind in Riverside, Calif., but it might have been better had there been. Pat had to stand beneath the sun in 102° F. heat to dedicate a new wing of a senior citizens' community center in honor of her late mother-in-law, Mrs. Hannah Milhous Nixon...
...THAT ferocious and self-annihilating way," wrote Phillip Roth in the voice of Alex Portnoy, "in which so many Jewish men of his generation served their families, my father served my mother, my sister Hannah but particularly me. Where he had been imprisoned, I would fly: that was his dream...
...Hannah moves through her marriage and her life with the scornful arrogance of an unpublished poet who has not gone to the trouble of actually writing a poem. Her habitual comment on her husband's remarks is, "That's trite." She takes no pleasure in his success, feels remote from her young son and declares herself as bored with her own hard-working contemporaries as she is with the older generation's memories...
...boys, twins she grew up with in a village outside Jerusalem. In the games they played, "I was a princess, and they were my bodyguard, I was a conqueror and they my officers, I was an explorer, and they my native bearers." Now the Arabs are the enemy, and Hannah dreams of them as lovers and kidnapers, "dark and lithe, a pair of strong gray wolves," from whom she wishes to be rescued. At journal's end, the long-suffering Michael is helping a glamorous blonde finish her thesis. Hannah takes this as the end of her love...
...early founders of Zion has cooled. The new passionate people are the Arab fedayeen, and in some small dark recess of the national psyche, the Israelis are jealous. In particular, the not-so-young married women who are the book's most fervent admirers have found in Hannah a vicarious release from the unromantic demands of industrialized nation building...